“…Indeed, most health-related research on social support in South Africa has been conducted among caregivers of patients living with HIV/AIDS (e.g., Casale, Wild, Cluver, & Kuo, 2014; Kuo, Fitzgerald, Operario, & Casale, 2012; Singh, Chaudoir, Escobar, & Kalichman, 2011). Other locally conducted studies on social support have been conducted among patients with fibromyalgia (Cooper & Gilbert, 2017), type II diabetes (Ramkisson, Pillay, & Sibanda, 2017), and orthopaedic-related injuries (Maselesele & Idemudia, 2013). Even though breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed type of cancer among women in South Africa, accounting for 21.78% of new diagnoses (South African National Cancer Registry, 2014), we were unable to find published research measuring social support among this population.…”