ABC-DO protocol
McKenzie F, Zietsman A, Galukande M, Anele A, Adisa C, Cubasch H, et al. (2016). African Breast Cancer-Disparities in Outcomes (ABC-DO): protocol of a multicountry mobile health prospective study of breast cancer survival in sub-Saharan Africa. BMJ Open. 6(8):e011390. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-011390 PMID:27554102
Maternal orphans
Galukande M, Schüz J, Anderson BO, Zietsman A, Adisa C, Anele A, et al. (2021). Maternally orphaned children and intergenerational concerns associated with breast cancer deaths among women in sub-Saharan Africa. JAMA Oncol. 7(2):285–9. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamaoncol.2020.6583 PMID:33355599
Downstaging and the journey to diagnosis
Togawa K, Anderson BO, Foerster M, Galukande M, Zietsman A, Pontac J, et al. (2021). Geospatial barriers to healthcare access for breast cancer diagnosis in sub-Saharan African settings: the African Breast Cancer-Disparities in Outcomes cohort study. Int J Cancer. 148(9):2212–26. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.33400 PMID:33197280
McKenzie F, Zietsman A, Galukande M, Anele A, Adisa C, Parham G, et al. (2018). Drivers of advanced stage at breast cancer diagnosis in the multicountry African Breast Cancer - Disparities in Outcomes (ABC-DO) study. Int J Cancer. 142(8):1568–79. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.31187 PMID:29197068
McKenzie F, Zietsman A, Galukande M, Anele A, Adisa C, Parham G, et al. (2018). Breast cancer awareness in the sub-Saharan African ABC-DO cohort: African Breast Cancer-Disparities in Outcomes study. Cancer Causes Control. 29(8):721–30. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10552-018-1047-7 PMID:29980984
Murugan N, Dickens C, Pisa P, McCormack V, Joffe M, Jacobson J, et al. (2014). Down-staging of breast cancer in the pre-screening era: experiences from Chris Hani Baragwaneth Academic Hospital, Soweto, South Africa. S Afr Med J. 104(5):380. https://doi.org/10.7196/SAMJ.8243 PMID:25295329
Dickens C, Joffe M, Jacobson J, Venter F, Schüz J, Cubasch H, et al. (2014). Stage at breast cancer diagnosis and distance from diagnostic hospital in a periurban setting: a South African public hospital case series of over 1,000 women. Int J Cancer. 135(9):2173–82. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.28861 PMID:24658866
Jedy-Agba E, McCormack V, Adebamowo C, Dos-Santos-Silva I (2016). Stage at diagnosis of breast cancer in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis. Lancet Glob Health. 4(12):e923–35. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(16)30259-5 PMID:27855871
Breast cancer subtypes in sub-Saharan Africa
Eng A, McCormack V, dos-Santos-Silva I (2014). Receptor-defined subtypes of breast cancer in indigenous populations in Africa: a systematic review and meta-analysis. PLoS Med. 11(9):e1001720. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pmed.1001720 PMID:25202974
Dickens C, Duarte R, Zietsman A, Cubasch H, Kellett P, Schüz J, et al. (2014). Racial comparison of receptor-defined breast cancer in Southern African women: subtype prevalence and age-incidence analysis of nationwide cancer registry data. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 23(11):2311–21. https://doi.org/10.1158/1055-9965.EPI-14-0603 PMID:25143359
McCormack VA, Joffe M, van den Berg E, Broeze N, Silva I dos S, Romieu I, et al. (2013). Breast cancer receptor status and stage at diagnosis in over 1,200 consecutive public hospital patients in Soweto, South Africa: a case series. Breast Cancer Res. 15(5):R84. https://doi.org/10.1186/bcr3478 PMID:24041225
Dickens C, Pfeiffer RM, Anderson WF, Duarte R, Kellett P, Schüz J, et al. (2016). Investigation of breast cancer sub-populations in black and white women in South Africa. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 160(3):531–7. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-016-4019-1 PMID:27757717
Breast cancer and comorbidities, including HIV, in Africa
Ayeni OA, Norris SA, Joffe M, Cubasch H, Galukande M, Zietsman A, et al. (2021). Preexisting morbidity profile of women newly diagnosed with breast cancer in sub-Saharan Africa: African Breast Cancer-Disparities in Outcomes study. Int J Cancer. 148(9):2158–70. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.33387 PMID:33180326
Ayeni OA, Norris SA, Joffe M, Cubasch H, Nietz S, Buccimazza I, et al. (2020). The multimorbidity profile of South African women newly diagnosed with breast cancer. Int J Cancer. 147(2):361–74. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.32727 PMID:31600408
Cubasch H, Joffe M, Hanisch R, Schuz J, Neugut AI, Karstaedt A, et al. (2013). Breast cancer characteristics and HIV among 1,092 women in Soweto, South Africa. Breast Cancer Res Treat. 140(1):177–86. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10549-013-2606-y PMID:23801159
McCormack VA, Febvey-Combes O, Ginsburg O, Dos-Santos-Silva I (2018). Breast cancer in women living with HIV: a first global estimate. Int J Cancer. 143(11):2732–40. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.31722 PMID:29992553
Breast cancer treatment
Foerster M, McCormack V, Anderson BO, Boucheron P, Zietsman A, Cubasch H, et al. (2022). Treatment guideline concordance, initiation, and abandonment in patients with non-metastatic breast cancer from the African Breast Cancer-Disparities in Outcomes (ABC-DO) cohort in sub-Saharan Africa: a prospective cohort study. Lancet Oncol. 23(6):729–38. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1470-2045(22)00198-X PMID:35550274
Boucheron P, Anele A, Zietsman A, Galukande M, Parham G, Pinder LF, et al. (2021). Self-reported arm and shoulder problems in breast cancer survivors in Sub-Saharan Africa: the African Breast Cancer-Disparities in Outcomes cohort study. Breast Cancer Res. 23(1):109. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13058-021-01486-9 PMID:34819118
Foerster M, Anderson BO, McKenzie F, Galukande M, Anele A, Adisa C, et al. (2019). Inequities in breast cancer treatment in sub-Saharan Africa: findings from a prospective multi-country observational study. Breast Cancer Res. 21(1):93. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13058-019-1174-4 PMID:31409419
Breast cancer survival
Kim J, Macharia PM, McCormack V, Foerster M, Galukande M, Joffe M, et al. (2024). Geospatial disparities in survival of patients with breast cancer in sub-Saharan Africa from the African Breast Cancer-Disparities in Outcomes cohort (ABC-DO): a prospective cohort study. Lancet Glob Health. 12(7):e1111–9. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(24)00138-4 PMID:38788756
Boucheron P, Anele A, Offiah AU, Zietsman A, Galukande M (2023). Reproductive history and breast cancer survival: findings from the African Breast Cancer – Disparities in Outcomes cohort and implications of Africa’s fertility transition on breast cancer prognosis. Int J Cancer. 152(9):1804–16. https://doi.org/10.1002/ijc.34411 PMID:36545890
Chasimpha S, McCormack V, Cubasch H, Joffe M, Zietsman A, Galukande M, et al. (2022). Disparities in breast cancer survival between women with and without HIV across sub-Saharan Africa (ABC-DO): a prospective, cohort study. Lancet HIV. 9(3):e160–71. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2352-3018(21)00326-X PMID:35245508
McCormack V, McKenzie F, Foerster M, Zietsman A, Galukande M, Adisa C, et al. (2020). Breast cancer survival and survival gap apportionment in sub-Saharan Africa (ABC-DO): a prospective cohort study. Lancet Glob Health. 8(9):e1203–12. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2214-109X(20)30261-8 PMID:32827482
Cubasch H, Dickens C, Joffe M, Duarte R, Murugan N, Tsai Chih M, et al. (2018). Breast cancer survival in Soweto, Johannesburg, South Africa: a receptor-defined cohort of women diagnosed from 2009 to 11. Cancer Epidemiol. 52:120–7. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.canep.2017.12.007 PMID:29306221
Chasimpha S, Dos Santos Silva I, Martei YM, Grover S, Cubasch H, McCormack V (2023). Survival disparities between patients with breast cancer with and without HIV: a research framework. JCO Glob Oncol. 9(9):e2200330. https://doi.org/10.1200/GO.22.00330 PMID:37075268
Breast cancer survivorship
Boucheron P, McCormack V, Naamala A, Oyamienlen CS, Pontac J, Kaggwa A, et al. (2024). Quality of life in long-term breast cancer survivors in Sub-Saharan Africa: the African Breast Cancer-Disparities in Outcomes study. J Cancer Surviv. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11764-024-01693-1 PMID:39656419
Breast cancer control
Boucheron P, Zietsman A, Anele A, Offiah AU, Galukande M, Parham G, et al. (2025). Measuring the WHO Global Breast Cancer Initiative Pillars’ key performance indicators in Sub-Saharan Africa: experience in the African Breast Cancer—Disparities in Outcomes hospital-based cohort study. EClinicalMedicine. 81:103104. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eclinm.2025.103104
Boucheron P, Zietsman A, Pontac J, Hansen R, Anderson BO, Togawa K, et al. (2023). Analysis of the breast cancer journey in Namibia. JAMA Netw Open. 6(11):e2341402. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.41402 PMID:37921764