Reviewer’s report
Title: 
Women's appraisal, interpretation and help-seeking for possible symptoms
of breast and cervical cancer in South Africa: a qualitative study
Version: 
1 
Date: 
16 Sep 2020
Reviewer's report:
Totally the present article is well-established and the subject is interesting, but
some major revision should be considered.
- More suitable title should be selected for the article. Title should decrease to
10-12 words.
- The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal
results and major conclusions. An abstract is often presented separately from the
article, so it must be able to stand alone.
- It is suggested to present the structure of the article at the end of the
introduction.
- The necessity and innovation of the article should be presented to the
introduction.
- A flowchart should be added to the article to show the research methodology.
- The major defect of this study is the debate or Argument is not clear stated in
the introduction session. Hence, the contribution is weak in this manuscript. I
would suggest the author to enhance your theoretical discussion and arrives your
debate or argument.
- Sections and sub-sections should be numbered in order.
- More suitable title should be selected for the table 1 instead of "Participant
socio demographic characteristics (n=18)".
- Following, you will find some new related references which should be added to
literature review:
Abdelaal et al. Estimation of Out-of-Field Dose Variation using Markus
Ionization Chamber Detector;
Yavari, K. Anti-Angiogenesis Therapy of Cancer Cells using 153Sm-
Bevasesomab;
Zare, H. Effects of Salvia Officinalis Extract on the Breast Cancer Cell Line.
- Page 12: the following paragraph is unclear, so please reorganize that:
"Some women in urban areas held beliefs that everyday activities such as placing
unwrapped money in direct contact with breast skin could cause breast cancer. A
26-year-old woman with a breast lump was afraid that her breast lump could be a
possible breast cancer because of placing unwrapped money in her "breast"."
- Much more explanations and interpretations must be added for the results,
which are not enough.
- It is suggested to compare the results of the present research with some similar
studies which is done before.
- Please make sure your conclusions' section underscore the scientific value
added of your paper, and/or the applicability of your findings/results, as
indicated previously. Please revise your conclusion part into more details.
Basically, you should enhance your contributions, limitations, underscore the
scientific value added of your paper, and/or the applicability of your
findings/results and future study in this session.
- DOI of the references must be added (you can use "https://crossref.org/").
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