cancer, with 3,058 women dying from the disease (AIHW, 2019). The overall breast cancer survival rate for women in therefore high with a five-year survival rate of 90.8% and ten-year survival rate of 83%, though breast cancer in pre-menopausal women has poorer outcomes than in older post-menopausal women (Breast Cancer Netwrok Australia [BCNA], 2019). Over the last 20 years, multiple qualitative studies have been published in Australia examining breast cancer from various perspectives. We found multiple studies on breast cancer experiences from both psychosocial
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