results strong participation was associated with a younger age, higher educational level, higher incomes, previous history of cancer, previous family history of cancer, one or two prior mammographies, more correct recognitions of mammography, recall rate, and breast cancer risk. if the false-positive result occurred, 83.9%, 81.9% and 77.3% of the women agreed or strongly agreed to participate i...

background : participation of iranian women with a family history of breast cancer in breast cancer screening programs is low.this study evaluates compliance of women having a family history of breast cancer with clinical breast exam (cbe) according to stage of trans theoretical model (ttm) and health belief model (hbm).material and methods : in this cross-sectional study, we used persian versi...

Background: Prediction of breast cancer risk and identifying women who are at high risk of breast cancer, would be a great help for planning and conducting screening programs. The aim of this study was to estimate the 5-year breast cancer risk among women in Isfahan. Methods: This cross-sectional study was conducted on 9674 women aged 35-69 years who referred to the Breast Cancer Screening Cen...

The purpose of this study was to assess the detection rate of mammography in breast cancer and the attendance rate in response to the call for screening mammography in females before the development of symptoms. One-thousand four-hundred and thirty-eight women over 35 years of age who had no complaint and had normal breast examinations were called for mammography. Out of the 10,000 women u...

The fact that the development of breast cancer is linked to repeated or sustained exposure to high blood estrogen levels has raised obvious concern that reproductive hormones particularly estrogen, might increase the risk of breast cancer development. While, the general consensus is that overall; IVF is not associated with an increased risk for development of breast cancer, a recent report publ...

the purpose of this study was to assess the detection rate of mammography in breast cancer and the attendance rate in response to the call for screening mammography in females before the development of symptoms. one-thousand four-hundred and thirty-eight women over 35 years of age who had no complaint and had normal breast examinations were called for mammography. out of the 10,000 women under ...

Background: Improvement of attitudes toward breast cancer positively affects the screening behaviors of women. Imagery has been shown to have a positive impact on the screening behaviors of women. Aim: This study aimed to investigate the effects of breast cancer screening training based on the systematic comprehensive health education and promotion (SHEP) model on the attitudes and breast self-...