Life Changing Tech for Pharma and Oncologists

What do we do?

We are a sustainable tech company with a commercial business model to support the mission of Afri-Onc. We register cancer patients and make guidelines and clinical trials more available for doctors in Africa.

ONC4U, the innovative platform for oncology in Africa

What do we do?

We are a sustainable tech company with a commercial business model to support the mission of Afri-Onc. We register cancer patients and make guidelines and clinical trials more available for doctors in Africa.

Cancer registration

Afri-Onc is implementing a state of the art digital registration solution for doctors. Based on the TNM system, published by the Union for International Cancer Control (UICC). This system is a globally recognised standard for classifying the extend of spread of cancer.

Treatment

The platform:

  • provides match making in Clinical Trials which are indispensable for improving cancer care in Africa.
  • records the treatment (Surgery, Radiotherapy, Systemic therapy).

Outcome

In the end it’s all about the results of the treatment. That’s why we monitor the overall and disease free survival.

Making
Impact

One million people could die of cancer annually in sub-Saharan Africa by 2030 without urgent actions, experts warn.

Our mission statement is: “Making impact on cancer diagnosis, treatment and outcome in Africa”

Photo: AFP

How it started

Afri-Onc, founded in early 2019, is developing rapidly. Rwanda serves as the inaugural country for the implementation of the ONC4U platform. The Kigali based software company WiredIn developed the platform in 2023.

Cancer Information & Research

Afri-Onc is specialized in strengthening cancer information and research, including cancer registration.

Where?

Rwanda; a beautiful and promising country in the center of Africa, with approximately 13 million inhabitants and about 8000 new cancer cases per year. (Globocan data)

We work in close cooperation with well motivated Rwandese health care professionals. The capital city Kigali is hosting the ‘Medical Tech-Hub’ in Africa. A perfect place tot start!

The ONC4U platform is set to be available on the whole continent.

Improvement

As expected, cancer will be the leading cause of death at the end of this decade; Afri-Onc is convinced that we need to:

  • Improve registration in coorperation with the Rwandan professionals.
  • Make treatment and clinical trials more available.
  • Support local healthcare workers with education and income.
Mobile Health platform

After extensive testing the platform goes live in 2024.

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Literature

Relevant literature

  • State of Cancer Control in Rwanda: Past, Present and Future Opportunities (JCO 2021)
  • One million people could die of cancer annualy in Sub-Saharan Africa by 2030 without urgent action
    experts warn (Lancet 2022)
  • The Global Cancer Observatory (WHO IARC 2021)
  • Key prevention and control interventions for reducing cancer burden in the WHO african region. (WHO 2012)
  • Landscape of Oncology Clinical Trials in Africa (JCO 2021)

Relevant links

Taking action

In the Lancet Oncology of May 2022, international experts describe a list of eight actions to make decisive progress toward reducing the burden of cancer in Africa.

Since 2019 Afri-Onc focuses on four of these eight actions. Below, those are highlighted in bold.

 

  1. Develop or update national cancer control plans and provide sustained financing, to ensure their implementation;
  2. Invest in cancer registration to provide data upon which rational cancer planning will be undertaken;
  3. Expand universal health coverage, incorporating cancer care into essential benefits packages and national health insurance systems to reduce out-of-pocket expenditures for essential therapies for citizens with cancer;
  4. Pilot early cancer screening and detection programs that make use of point-of-care technology delivered by allied health professionals;
  5. Include palliative care as an integral and key part of cancer care;
  6. Establish relevant training programs for healthcare and allied professions to build and maintain the cancer workforce;
  7. Establish national cancer research institutes and committees with agreed funding streams; develop international collaborations and external partnerships;
  8. Invest in telehealth and other digital health solutions.

Taking action

In the Lancet Oncology of May 2022, international experts describe a list of eight actions to make decisive progress toward reducing the burden of cancer in Africa.

Since 2019 Afri-Onc focuses on four of these eight actions. Below, those are highlighted in bold.

 

  1. Develop or update national cancer control plans and provide sustained financing, to ensure their implementation;
  2. Invest in cancer registration to provide data upon which rational cancer planning will be undertaken;
  3. Expand universal health coverage, incorporating cancer care into essential benefits packages and national health insurance systems to reduce out-of-pocket expenditures for essential therapies for citizens with cancer;
  4. Pilot early cancer screening and detection programs that make use of point-of-care technology delivered by allied health professionals;
  5. Include palliative care as an integral and key part of cancer care;
  6. Establish relevant training programs for healthcare and allied professions to build and maintain the cancer workforce;
  7. Establish national cancer research institutes and committees with agreed funding streams; develop international collaborations and external partnerships;
  8. Invest in telehealth and other digital health solutions.

Team

We are a highly motivated group of professionals with long-standing experience in various relevant fields of work, both in Rwanda as in the Netherlands.

Jeroen Uppelschoten, MD

Chief Executive Officer/ Radiation Oncologist

Building bridges

Huibert de Potter

Chief Operating Officer

Making connections

Kevin Muragijimana, MD

Coordinating Medical Consultant Africa

Liason in Africa

Philine van den Tol

Chief Clinical Trials Officer

Brain power

Rene de Keijzer

Chief Financial Officer

Keeps on counting

Ole Smit

Data Protection Officer

Rolling up his sleeves

Brandon A. Niyibizi

Clinical Trial Coordinator Rwanda/ Pharmacist

Dedicated to Improve Cancer Care

Bart-Jan Ter Heegde

Chief Technical Officer

Driven by Data and Tech

Afri-Onc partner in Rwanda: Rwanda Cancer Relief

Afri-Onc partner in The Netherlands: IKNL

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Call or WhatsApp Jeroen

+31 6 2095 3179

 Call or WhatsApp Huibert

+31 6 1587 8387

Email

info@afri-onc.com

Address

Afri-Onc BV (Ltd)
Zuiderstraat 12
1486 MJ   West-Graftdijk
The Netherlands