Futility in healthcare among Mexican female patients with breast cancer in advanced stage: The patient perspective

María del Mar Yukie Namba-Bando; Irazú Contreras-Yáñez; Juan Alberto Tenorio-Torres; Virginia Pascual-Ramos

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0326332

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Futility in healthcare among Mexican female patients with breast cancer in advanced stage: The patient perspective

María del Mar Yukie Namba-Bando ,

Contributed equally to this work with: María del Mar Yukie Namba-Bando, Irazú Contreras-Yáñez, Juan Alberto Tenorio-Torres, Virginia Pascual-Ramos

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Fundación de Cáncer de Mama (Breast Cancer Foundation) FUCAM A.C., Mexico City, Mexico
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Irazú Contreras-Yáñez ,

Contributed equally to this work with: María del Mar Yukie Namba-Bando, Irazú Contreras-Yáñez, Juan Alberto Tenorio-Torres, Virginia Pascual-Ramos

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Immunology and Rheumatology Department, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico, Centro Interdisciplinario de Bioética de la Universidad Paramericana (CIBUP), Mexico City, Mexico
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Juan Alberto Tenorio-Torres ,

Contributed equally to this work with: María del Mar Yukie Namba-Bando, Irazú Contreras-Yáñez, Juan Alberto Tenorio-Torres, Virginia Pascual-Ramos

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

Affiliation Fundación de Cáncer de Mama (Breast Cancer Foundation) FUCAM A.C., Mexico City, Mexico
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Virginia Pascual-Ramos

Contributed equally to this work with: María del Mar Yukie Namba-Bando, Irazú Contreras-Yáñez, Juan Alberto Tenorio-Torres, Virginia Pascual-Ramos

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft

* E-mail: virtichu@gmail.com

Affiliations Immunology and Rheumatology Department, Instituto Nacional de Ciencias Médicas y Nutrición Salvador Zubirán, Mexico City, Mexico, Centro Interdisciplinario de Bioética de la Universidad Paramericana (CIBUP), Mexico City, Mexico

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7368-498X

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Futility in healthcare among Mexican female patients with breast cancer in advanced stage: The patient perspective

María del Mar Yukie Namba-Bando,
Irazú Contreras-Yáñez,
Juan Alberto Tenorio-Torres,
Virginia Pascual-Ramos

Published: June 23, 2025
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0326332

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