Gatekeepers or barriers? Exploring traditional medicine practitioners’ understanding of breast cancer in Ghana

• Perpetual Arthur,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Department of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Kumasi South Regional Hospital, Ghana Health Service, Kumasi, Ashanti Region, Ghana

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• Adwoa Bemah Boamah Mensah ,

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

  * E-mail: bbemahc2000@gmail.com, abbmensah@knust.edu.gh

  Affiliation Department of Nursing, School of Nursing and Midwifery, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1114-702X

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• Kofi Boamah Mensah,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacy Practice, Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Thomas Okpoti Konney,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, School of Medical Sciences, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana

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• John Amuasi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Global One Health Research Group, Bernhard Nocht Institute of Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany, Department of Global Health, School of Public Health. Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana, Global Health and Infectious Diseases Research Group, Kumasi Centre for Collaborative Research in Tropical Medicine, UPO PMB, KNUST, Kumasi, Ghana

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• Shalini Kulasingam,

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

  Affiliation Celia Scott Weatherhead School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States of America

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• Beth A. Virnig

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

  Affiliation College of Public Health and Health Professions, University of Florida, Gainesville, United States of America

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