Symptom interpretation: symptoms interpreted as signs of menstruation and breast feeding, lumpy breast

Information from online resources

Attribution of symptoms to cancer: rare symptoms (pimple, soft gel patch, scar) expected to be simple explanation

Fear of diagnosis and treatment due to fatalistic view of ‘cancer’ and poor knowledge of treatment

Fear of hospitalisation

Denial

Preference for alternative and traditional medicine as the first-line treatment

Busy with holiday, festivals, weddings

Financial issue

Misinformed by relatives

Cultural (stigma) and marriage issues

Fated because of a family history of cancer