Abstract

he ongoing global incidence and prevalence rates of breast cancer ensure that this remains a condition needing further research and
awareness raising in relation to the individual cultures and contexts in which it is diagnosed’. Being able to inform practice-based decision making with
co-constructed knowledge of the social and cultural context in which the illness is experienced, and clinical intervention sought. A process of systematic
review to identified sociocultural factors that affect breast cancer management and integrated existing published evidence on how these factors influence
treatment experiences of breast cancer in West Africa.