Demonstration of an algorithm to overcome health system-related barriers to timely diagnosis of breast diseases in rural Zambia

• Leeya F. Pinder,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Global Women’s Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women and Newborn Hospital, Lusaka Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8929-7810

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• Jean-Baptiste Nzayisenga,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women and Newborn Hospital, Lusaka Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Aaron Shibemba,

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

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women and Newborn Hospital, Lusaka Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Victor Kusweje,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Kabwe General Hospital, Kabwe, Zambia

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• Hector Chiboola,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Social Sciences, Chreso University, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Mary Amuyunzu-Nyamongo,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation African Institute for Health and Development, Nairobi, Kenya

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• Sharon Kapambwe,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Ministry of Health, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Catherine Mwaba,

  Roles Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Cancer Diseases Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia

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• Pavlo Lermontov,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Kabwe General Hospital, Kabwe, Zambia

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• Chibamba Mumba,

  Roles Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Pathology, Kabwe General Hospital, Kabwe, Zambia

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• Ronda Henry-Tillman,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

  Affiliation Department of Surgery, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, United States of America

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• Groesbeck P. Parham

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: professorparham@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Global Women’s Health, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States of America, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Women and Newborn Hospital, Lusaka Zambia, Lusaka, Zambia

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