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Table 9 Sociocultural domain

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

Theme 3: Health Literacy

Sub-themes

Participant quotations

1: Contrasting opinions on cancer information available to communities

o “Like television, even radio stations, they tend to call an expert to explain, even Google, you can get information”- FGD 2

o Sometimes when we’ve gone to the clinic, there are awareness’ [talks]”- FGD 3

o “Look right now we have Covid, they talk about it…HIV, about Aids, but cancer, there’s less awareness with it…you know, because yes, we hear that there’s a lot of them, but we are not even having ideas about the symptoms thereof, how it should be treated…like, things like that…like, we are clueless”- FGD 5