Forrest, Laura E. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1126-4971
Forbes Shepherd, Rowan
Spelman, Timothy
Keogh, Louise
Young, Mary-Anne https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2493-6394
Powell, Sarah https://orcid.org/0009-0004-7750-6189
Beard, Catherine https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9399-0709
Salmon, Lucinda
Warwick, Linda
Williams, Rachel
Burke, Jo
D’Souza, Rebecca
James, Paul A. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4361-4657
Funding for this research was provided by:
National Breast Cancer Foundation
National Breast Cancer Foundation Grant ref. no. PF 14-009
Article History
Received: 29 May 2025
Revised: 24 November 2025
Accepted: 17 December 2025
First Online: 3 January 2026
Competing interests
: The authors declare no competing interests.
: This research was performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and received multi-site ethics approval from the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC/17/PMCC/284). Ethics approval was also granted by the Tasmanian Ethics Committee (protocol no. H0018312). Site governance was granted at ACT Health, Austin Health, Melbourne Health, NSW Local Area Health Service, PMCC and King Edward Memorial Hospital, Western Australia. Informed consent was obtained from all participants.