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Article History

Received: 25 August 2020

Accepted: 9 February 2021

First Online: 18 February 2021

Ethics approval and consent to participate

: Ethical approval and permission to conduct the study was provided by the Makerere University School of Public Health Higher Degrees Research and Ethics Committee. Permission to access the patients was obtained from the director of research at the Uganda Cancer Institute. Participants were provided adequate information regarding the study, and they voluntarily accepted to participate. Each prospective participant provided written informed consent before participation. Privacy was achieved by conducting interviews in quiet places without nonparticipants. Confidentiality was ensured through anonymizing transcripts and keeping data out of reach of persons not involved in the study.

: Not applicable.

: The authors report that they have no conflict of interest.