Barriers to early presentation of breast cancer among women in Soweto, South Africa

• Maureen Joffe ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maureen Joffe, Oluwatosin Ayeni, Shane Anthony Norris, Paul Ruff, Herbert Cubasch

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: mjoffe@witshealth.co.za

  Affiliations Non-Communicable Diseases Research Division, Wits Health Consortium (PTY) Ltd, Johannesburg, South Africa, MRC Developmental Pathways to Health Research Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8616-9672

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• Oluwatosin Ayeni ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maureen Joffe, Oluwatosin Ayeni, Shane Anthony Norris, Paul Ruff, Herbert Cubasch

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

  Affiliation Non-Communicable Diseases Research Division, Wits Health Consortium (PTY) Ltd, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Shane Anthony Norris ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maureen Joffe, Oluwatosin Ayeni, Shane Anthony Norris, Paul Ruff, Herbert Cubasch

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Non-Communicable Diseases Research Division, Wits Health Consortium (PTY) Ltd, Johannesburg, South Africa, MRC Developmental Pathways to Health Research Unit, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Valerie Ann McCormack ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Section of Environment and Radiation, International Agency for Research on Cancer, Lyon, France

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• Paul Ruff ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maureen Joffe, Oluwatosin Ayeni, Shane Anthony Norris, Paul Ruff, Herbert Cubasch

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Non-Communicable Diseases Research Division, Wits Health Consortium (PTY) Ltd, Johannesburg, South Africa, Division of Medical Oncology, Department Internal Medicine, University of Witwatersrand Faculty of Health Sciences, Johannesburg, South Africa

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• Ishani Das ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Herbert Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America

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• Alfred I. Neugut ,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Resources, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

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

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• Judith S. Jacobson ,

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

  ¶‡ These authors also contributed equally to this work.

  Affiliation Department of Epidemiology, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America

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• Herbert Cubasch

  Contributed equally to this work with: Maureen Joffe, Oluwatosin Ayeni, Shane Anthony Norris, Paul Ruff, Herbert Cubasch

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

  Affiliations Non-Communicable Diseases Research Division, Wits Health Consortium (PTY) Ltd, Johannesburg, South Africa, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa

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