Breast cancer is the most common cancer among women globally. This study was conducted to compare the awareness of breast cancer and the practice of breast self-examination (BSE), clinical breast examination (CBE) and mammography screening among rural females in Pahang and Perak. A cross-sectional study was carried out in five selected rural districts of Pahang and Perak. Two hundred and fifty ...

Introduction: Breast neoplasia is the most common cancer among women in both developed and developing countries. Over 1.15 million women in the world detecting with breast neoplasia each year and the mortality rate is 502,000 cases from this cancer. The purpose of this study was to describe how Iranian women perform breast self-examination. Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study 4...

UNLABELLED Breast cancer is one of the most common causes of death in many developed countries amongst middle-aged women and is becoming common in developing countries as well. AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to evaluate the performance of Breast Self Examination (BSE) against examination conducted by the trained health personnel. METHODOLOGY A descriptive evaluative stu...

AIM To explore breast health awareness and the early diagnosis and detection methods of breast cancer from the perspective of women and primary healthcare providers in the Jizan region of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. BACKGROUND Although there is a high incidence of advanced breast cancer in young women in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, there is no standardized information about breast self-exam...

The debate over the effi cacy of breast self-exams (BSE) tends to be couched in economic terms based on data aggregation. There are confl icting reports of its effectiveness as well as its overall costs to the health care system. Researchers and most funding agencies suggest it is not a useful tool in cancer prevention and often drives up health care costs because of the number of false positiv...

BACKGROUND Late presentation of patients at advanced stages when little or no benefit can be derived from any form of therapy is the hallmark of breast cancer in Nigerian women. Recent global cancer statistics indicate rising global incidence of breast cancer and the increase is occurring at a faster rate in populations of the developing countries that hitherto enjoyed low incidence of the dise...

OBJECTIVE Breast cancer is one of the most important problems of public health and education regarding breast self-examination is one of the important steps for identifying breast tumors at an early stage. The present study was carried out to assess knowledge, attitude, and practice of breast self-examination among patients attending health centers. METHODS In a KAP (Knowledge, Attitude and P...

Delay in seeking treatment for breast cancer is a barrier to the early diagnosis and management of the disease, resulting in a poorer prognosis. We here estimated the prevalence of delayed presentation for breast cancer and identified possible influential sociodemographic factors in a cross-sectional study of 250 patients diagnosed with primary breast cancer at the Radiotherapy and Oncology Cli...