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Key Opinion Leader Interviews

We interviewed 59 KOLs representing the breast cancer patient advocacy, academic, government,
pharmaceutical industry, and nonprofit sectors. The goal of these interviews was to gain input on
urgent priorities, gaps, and opportunities in MBC research. We identified our list of interviewees
from the leadership of our own Alliance member organizations and from the MBC Grants Dataset
by identifying those scientists who were listed as principal investigator on 6 or more grants. A
complete list of the KOLs interviewed is in Appendix 2.

Many of the experts cautioned against specifically focusing on the list of 7 questions we had
developed, noting that not all possible or exciting target areas were listed. However, the questions
did elicit informative responses. The recurring themes that emerged from the 3 or more
respondents are summarized in Table 5.

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