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ArticleWomen's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.)2021

Pathways to Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment Among Women in Ghana: A Qualitative Study.

Waruiru Mburu, Adwoa Bemah Boamah Mensah, Beth Virnig, John H Amuasi, Baffour Awuah, Carolyn M Porta, Ernest Osei-Bonsu, Shalini Kulasingam

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Article in Women's health reports (New Rochelle, N.Y.), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
17citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.8field-weighted citation impact, top 12% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 25 citations in OpenAlex.

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  6. Anticipated First Contact and Time to Seek Healthcare for Possible Breast Cancer Symptoms: A Cross-Sectional Study in Rural Ghana.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2025
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  11. Medical pluralism, healthcare utilization and patient wellbeing: The case of Akan cancer patients in Ghana.International journal of qualitative studies on health and well-being · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Waruiru MburuDivision of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Adwoa Bemah Boamah MensahDepartment of Nursing, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
Beth VirnigDivision of Health Policy and Management, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
John H AmuasiDepartment of Global Health, School of Public Health, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana.
Baffour AwuahMinistry of Health, Accra, Ghana.
Carolyn M PortaSchool of Nursing, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
Ernest Osei-BonsuDepartment of Medical Oncology and Radiation, Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital, Kumasi, Ghana.
Shalini KulasingamDivision of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
University of Minnesota · USKwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology · GHKomfo Anokye Teaching Hospital · GHMinistry of Health · GH

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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breast cancerearly detectionGhanapathways of caresub-Saharan Africa

Identifiers

PMID34318293
PMCPMC8310750
OpenAlexW3186024788

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