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Table 10 Sociocultural domain

From: Culture, community, and cancer: understandings of breast cancer from a non-lived experience among women living in Soweto

Theme 4: Perceived benefit of preventive action

Sub-themes

Participant quotations

1: Early detection/ diagnosis will lead to a longer survival rate

o “If they detect it early, it’s possible that they can remove the lump. And then, even when you go for treatments, you might find that, it can, through treatment-it can help you”- FGD 1

o “It hasn’t spread, it can be cured”- FGD 3