Impact of COVID-19 on breast cancer patients and services in a UK region: Protocol for a mixed methods study

• Helen Julia Mitchell ,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: helen.mitchell@qub.ac.uk

  Affiliation Northern Ireland Cancer Registry, Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry & Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5627-5527

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• Charlene M. McShane,

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

  Affiliation Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry & Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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• Sinéad Teresa Hawkins,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Northern Ireland Cancer Registry, Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry & Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3340-2917

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• Lynne Lohfeld,

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

  Affiliation Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry & Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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• Paula Darragh,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Northern Ireland Cancer Registry, Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry & Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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• Gareth Irwin,

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

  Affiliation Clinical Data Group, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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• Nicole Lowans,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry & Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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• Ann McBrien,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Patient Advocate, Belfast

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• Elisabeth Moss,

  Roles Formal analysis, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry & Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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• Siobhan O'Neill,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinical Data Group, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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• Jamie Roebuck,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Northern Ireland Cancer Registry, Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry & Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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• Shreya Sengupta,

  Roles Data curation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Clinical Data Group, Belfast Health and Social Care Trust, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2411-8663

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• Meenakshi Sharma,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry & Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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• Anna T. Gavin,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Northern Ireland Cancer Registry, Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry & Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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• Damien Bennett

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Northern Ireland Cancer Registry, Centre for Public Health, School of Medicine, Dentistry & Biomedical Sciences, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom

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