objective: to assess the level of awareness on breast cancer among women of reproductive age. materials and methods: a cross-sectional descriptive study was conducted in opd of dhaka medical college hospital among the 175 respondents by face to face interview using pretested semi structured questionnaire. results: one forth (23%) aged 21-25 years, mostly muslim (86.3%), housewives (72.57%), had...

Background: Breast cancer is one of the most frequent types of malignancy worldwide, Breast Self Exam (BSE) is considered as a simple method to screen and detect breast cancer, then early beginning of treatment and enhancing survival rates. Aim: To Identify the health beliefs about breast Self-Examination and its relationships with the frequency of BSE among the women in the University of Tabuk...

Results: The results revealed that most women in different countries have multiple factors preventing her to perform breast cancer examination and other screening methods, such as cultural, socio-demographic, socio-economic, behavioral and educational factors. Conclusion: Eliminating barriers and increasing perceived self-efficacy with an emphasis to make the women acquainted with BSE performan...

Breast cancer is that forms in breast tissue. One of the many cancers cause death throughout world. Delay early detection one causes late treatment patients with cancer. So far, self-examination or (BSE) a fairly effective way BSE easy to do and can be applied all ages, both teenagers adult women. The aim community service as first step preventing by increasing knowledge women childbearing age ...

BACKGROUND Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women in Malaysia. Barriers for practicing breast self examination (BSE) await exploration. OBJECTIVE To assess the practice of BSE and its correlated factors and particularly barriers amongst urban women in Malaysia. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted with 222 Malaysian women using a self-administered questionnaire. R...

BACKGROUND In most resource constrained settings like Nigeria, breast self-examination self-breast examination (BSE) is culturally acceptable, religious friendly and attracts no cost. Women's knowledge and beliefs about breast cancer and its management may contribute significantly to medical help-seeking behaviours. This study aimed to assess knowledge and beliefs of BSE among market women. M...

Breast self-examination is a cheap and easy to practice method of detecting mad cells in the breast tissue, as early detection has been proven increase chance survival. The study assessed Self-Examination (BSE) knowledge among female undergraduates Lagos State. A cross-sectional survey was conducted two hundred thirty respondents were drawn from State University using simple random sampling tec...

This was a descriptive research conducted in order to determine health beliefs of the female academicians about breast cancer and screening tests and the Affecting factors that determined these beliefs. 200 female academicians made up the sample of the research. The data were gathered by the researcher using a Descriptive Data Collection Form that aimed at the characteristics of the women and C...

INTRODUCTION Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women worldwide, and it can be detected at an early stage through self-examination which increases the chance of survival. This study aimed to assess knowledge and practice of breast self-examination (BSE) among females in a rural area of Trichy district. METHODOLOGY This community-based, cross-sectional study was carried out among a ...