Breast conservation surgery versus total mastectomy among women with localized breast cancer in Soweto, South Africa

• Herbert Cubasch ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Herbert Cubasch, Maureen Joffe, Paul Ruff, Judith S. Jacobson, Alfred Neugut

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Batho Pele Breast Unit, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa, Wits Health Consortium, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Maureen Joffe ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Herbert Cubasch, Maureen Joffe, Paul Ruff, Judith S. Jacobson, Alfred Neugut

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Batho Pele Breast Unit, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa, Wits Health Consortium, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Paediatrics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Paul Ruff ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Herbert Cubasch, Maureen Joffe, Paul Ruff, Judith S. Jacobson, Alfred Neugut

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Wits Health Consortium, Johannesburg, South Africa, Division of Medical Oncology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Donald Dietz ,

  Roles Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Evan Rosenbaum ,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Nivashni Murugan ,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Batho Pele Breast Unit, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Ming Tsai Chih ,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, Batho Pele Breast Unit, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Oluwatosin Ayeni ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Batho Pele Breast Unit, Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital, Johannesburg, South Africa, Wits Health Consortium, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Caroline Dickens ,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Katherine Crew ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Judith S. Jacobson ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Herbert Cubasch, Maureen Joffe, Paul Ruff, Judith S. Jacobson, Alfred Neugut

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

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• Alfred Neugut

  Contributed equally to this work with: Herbert Cubasch, Maureen Joffe, Paul Ruff, Judith S. Jacobson, Alfred Neugut

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: ain1@columbia.edu

  Affiliations Department of Medicine, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America, Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, New York, United States of America

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