Barriers to Follow-Up of an Abnormal Clinical Breast Examination in Uttar Pradesh, India: A Qualitative Study
Knowledge, cultural, and health system barriers challenge women's ability to follow recommendations for diagnostic follow-up of an abnormal CBE. Multilevel and gender-responsive strategies are needed to address these barriers. Our results suggest that mobile phones could be used to further improve breast health awareness, patient navigation, and tracking, and further research is needed.
Authors
- Gulnoza Usmanova (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7733-6264)
- Parag Bhamare
- Somesh Kumar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5482-7447)
- Shivani Agrawal
- Erica Liebermann (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0247-6443)
- Vaibhav Patwardhan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8421-4115)
- Ophira Ginsburg (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1384-2675)
- Nadeem Aktar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-7794-7086)
- Maura McCarthy
Institutions
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- University of Rhode Island (US)
- Providence College (US)
- Center for Global Health (US)
- National Cancer Institute (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- JCO Global Oncology
- Published
- 2024-10-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1200/go.24.00001
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.57