Facilitators and barriers to traditional medicine use among cancer patients in Malawi

Jacob Hill; Ryan Seguin; Twambilile Phanga; Agness Manda; Maria Chikasema; Satish Gopal; Jennifer S. Smith

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0223853

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Facilitators and barriers to traditional medicine use among cancer patients in Malawi

Jacob Hill ,

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

* E-mail: Jacob_hill@med.unc.edu

Affiliation University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America

http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9695-2166

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Ryan Seguin,

Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Malawi Cancer Consortium and Regional Center of Research Excellence for non-Communicable Diseases, Lilongwe, Malawi
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Twambilile Phanga,

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

Affiliation Malawi Cancer Consortium and Regional Center of Research Excellence for non-Communicable Diseases, Lilongwe, Malawi
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Agness Manda,

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

Affiliation Malawi Cancer Consortium and Regional Center of Research Excellence for non-Communicable Diseases, Lilongwe, Malawi
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Maria Chikasema,

Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Malawi Cancer Consortium and Regional Center of Research Excellence for non-Communicable Diseases, Lilongwe, Malawi
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Satish Gopal,

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

Affiliations University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America, Malawi Cancer Consortium and Regional Center of Research Excellence for non-Communicable Diseases, Lilongwe, Malawi, University of Malawi College of Medicine, Blantyre, Malawi
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Jennifer S. Smith

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

Affiliation University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States of America
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Facilitators and barriers to traditional medicine use among cancer patients in Malawi

Jacob Hill,
Ryan Seguin,
Twambilile Phanga,
Agness Manda,
Maria Chikasema,
Satish Gopal,
Jennifer S. Smith

Published: October 21, 2019
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0223853

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