ArticleCancer medicine2022
Exploring access to care from the perspective of patients with breast cancer: A qualitative study.
Article in Cancer medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Aligning awareness, systems and policy to increase equitable access to genomically driven cancer care.BMJ oncology · 2026Review
- A Provincial Survey on the Perioperative Rehabilitation Needs and Experiences of Women Diagnosed with Breast Cancer.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Characterizing authoritative oncology-related key opinion leaders on Weibo: A social media profiling study.Asia-Pacific journal of oncology nursing · 2025Article
- Application of patient journey mapping in patients with breast cancer: a scoping review.BMJ open · 2025Article
- Applying a Novel Measure of Community-Level Healthcare Access to Assess Breast Cancer Care Timeliness.Cancer epidemiology, biomarkers & prevention : a publication of the American Association for Cancer Research, cosponsored by the American Society of Preventive Oncology · 2025Article
- A latent class assessment of healthcare access factors and disparities in breast cancer care timeliness.PLoS medicine · 2024Article
- Patient-reported observations on medical procedure timeliness (PROMPT) in breast cancer: a qualitative study.Breast cancer research and treatment · 2024Article
- Exploring access to care from the perspective of patients with breast cancer: A qualitative study.Cancer medicine · 2022Article
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Abstract
objectivesPatients face a myriad of personal and system-based challenges in accessing breast cancer care, but less is known about access as expressed and experienced by patients themselves. The objective of this qualitative study was to further explore the breadth of issues related to access from the perspective of patients with breast cancer across their care journey.
methodsTwelve women participated in 1-h semi-structured interviews and 48 women participated in 2-h focus groups at six oncology practices in 2018. Grounded theory was used to analyze the data.
resultsSix primary themes emerged concerning access to care: information, psychosocial support, health insurance, financial resources, timeliness, and emotions.
conclusionsThis study identified six core dimensions of access to care. Access encompassed not only gaining entrée to care services-in the traditional sense of access-but also the continuing support needed to effectively use those services throughout the cancer care journey. Future strategies aimed at improving access to breast cancer care should attend to these ongoing patient-centric and system-based issues which are mostly amenable to change.
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