PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To determine how and what women learn about breast cancer and screening practices and which factors influence women's breast cancer screening practices. DESIGN Descriptive analysis of questionnaire data collected at the time of enrollment in a clinical trial. SETTING Breast care center of a mid-Atlantic academic health sciences center. SAMPLE 185 women in a predominantl...

background: improving the knowledge of healthcare providers towards different aspects of breast cancer leads to appropriate management and screening of disease. this study aimed to investigate the knowledge of breast cancer risk factors among a cohort of nurses in iran. materials and methods: the target group of the present study was 243 consecutive nurses (27 males and 216 females) at two refe...

many factors including genetic, environmental, and acquired are involved in breast cancer development across various societies. among all of these factors in families with a history of breast cancer throughout several generations, genetics, like predisposing genes to develop this disease, should be considered more. early detection of mutation carriers in these genes, in turn, can play an import...

BACKGROUND Breast cancer is the commonest type of cancer among women, and in Malaysia 50-60% of the new cases are being detected at late stages. Do age, education level, income, ethnicity, relationship with breast cancer patients and knowledge of breast cancer risk factors influence breast screening practices? This study revealed interesting but significant differences. OBJECTIVES To assess t...

BACKGROUND The role of breast screening in breast cancer mortality declines is debated. Screening impacts cancer mortality through decreasing the number of advanced cancers with poor diagnosis, while cancer treatment works through decreasing the case-fatality rate. Hence, reductions in cancer death rates thanks to screening should directly reflect reductions in advanced cancer rates. We verifie...

objective(s): breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. every year, one million new cases are reported worldwide, representing 18% of the total number of cancer in women. hereditary brca1 and brca2 mutations account for about 60% of inherited breast cancer and are the only known causes of hereditary breast cancer syndrome. the aim of this study was to determine the frequency of brca2 (e...

background : breast cancer is one of the most prevalent cancers among women today. the importance of breast cancer screening, its role in the timely identification of patients, and the reduction in treatment expenses are considered to be among the highest sanitary priorities of a modern country. thermal imaging clearly possesses a special role in this stage due to rapid diagnosis and use of har...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to compare breast and cervical cancer screening rates between female cancer survivors and a population without cancer to identify factors related to cervical and breast cancer screening in cancer survivors. METHODS We included 17,765 adults (738 cancer survivors and 17,027 individuals without cancer) in this study, all of whom who were 30 years of age or o...