Figure 1.

The conceptual map includes the categories that emerged across all participants and those unique categories that emerged for each individual’s interview. In the center block are the categories that emerged across all the participants including premature family planning, impact on future planning and outlook, lack of confidence, different than older women with BC, chemo brain, impact on relationships. The peripheral blocks illustrate the categories that emerged for each individual participant. For Mary the categories of not identifying with breast cancer emerged; for Ally the categories of loss of femininity and barriers to intimacy emerged; and for Kate the categories of embodiment of stress and desire to be around same age survivors emerged.