A project at Jaramogi Oginga Odinga Teaching and Referral Hospital (JOOTRH) in Kisumu, Kenya, has dramatically reduced breast cancer diagnosis delays, achieving core biopsies in less than six hours for 34 patients from January to May 2025. However, significant bottlenecks persist in histopathology lab turnaround times and pre-hospital patient delays.

• Average time to core biopsy was 0.22 days, with all 34 patients receiving biopsies within the two-day target.
• The project is a collaboration between JOOTRH, the Africa Cancer Foundation, and the Tiba Foundation.
• Histopathology analysis remains slow, averaging 19.1 days, and patients report a median delay of eight months from symptom appearance to hospital visits due to financial hardship despite 94.7 percent having Social Health Insurance Fund (SHA/SHIF).