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Background

Nigerians are one of the fastest growing minorities in the UK, with large concentrations living in south and east London; they comprise 5.1% of Greenwich’s population, 4.7% of Southwark’s and 4.7% of Barking and Dagenham’s (Office for National Statistics 2012). In the UK and US, black women with breast cancer are more likely to be diagnosed with metastatic breast cancer compared with their white counterparts (Downey et al 2007, Jack et al 2009). Although there is no breast cancer-specific data on Nigerian women living in the UK, Nigerian-based studies report that breast cancer is the second major cause of death among women, accounting for more