‘It was nothing that you would think was anything’: Qualitative analysis of appraisal and help seeking preceding brain cancer diagnosis

• Suzanne E. Scott ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: suzanne.scott@kcl.ac.uk

  Affiliation Centre for Oral, Clinical & Translational Science, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral and Craniofacial Sciences, King’s College London, Guy’s Hospital, London, United Kingdom

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5536-9612

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• Clarissa Penfold,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation The Primary Care Unit, Department of Public Health & Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Smiji Saji,

  Roles Formal analysis, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinical School, School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Sarah Curtis,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Oral, Clinical & Translational Science, Faculty of Dentistry, Oral and Craniofacial Sciences, King’s College London, Guy’s Hospital, London, United Kingdom

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• Colin Watts,

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

  Affiliation Institute of Cancer and Genomic Sciences, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom

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• Willie Hamilton,

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

  Affiliation Willie Hamilton, St Luke’s Campus, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom

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• Alexis J. Joannides,

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

  Affiliation Department of Clinical Neurosciences, Division of Neurosurgery, University of Cambridge, Cambridge Biomedical Campus, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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• Fiona M. Walter

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

  Affiliation The Primary Care Unit, Department of Public Health & Primary Care, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

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