Recognizing and appraising symptoms of breast cancer as a reason for delayed presentation in Ghanaian women: A qualitative study

Adwoa Bemah Bonsu; Busisiwe Purity Ncama

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0208773

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Recognizing and appraising symptoms of breast cancer as a reason for delayed presentation in Ghanaian women: A qualitative study

Adwoa Bemah Bonsu ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Adwoa Bemah Bonsu, Busisiwe Purity Ncama

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: bbemahc2000@gmail.com

Affiliations Discipline of Nursing, School of Nursing and Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, Department of Nursing, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1114-702X

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Busisiwe Purity Ncama

Contributed equally to this work with: Adwoa Bemah Bonsu, Busisiwe Purity Ncama

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Discipline of Nursing, School of Nursing and Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa
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Recognizing and appraising symptoms of breast cancer as a reason for delayed presentation in Ghanaian women: A qualitative study

Adwoa Bemah Bonsu,
Busisiwe Purity Ncama

Published: January 9, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0208773

About the Authors

Adwoa Bemah Bonsu

Contributed equally to this work with: Adwoa Bemah Bonsu, Busisiwe Purity Ncama

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: bbemahc2000@gmail.com

Affiliations Discipline of Nursing, School of Nursing and Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa, Department of Nursing, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, College of Health Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1114-702X

Busisiwe Purity Ncama

Contributed equally to this work with: Adwoa Bemah Bonsu, Busisiwe Purity Ncama

Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Discipline of Nursing, School of Nursing and Public Health, College of Health Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa

Competing Interests

The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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