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Awareness of Breast Cancer Risk Factors and Breast Self-Examination amongst Rural Women of Pakistan
No full textAbstractObjective: To assess the awareness of major risk factors of breast cancer and understanding andpractice related to breast self-examination among rural women of Pakistan.Methodology: 396 rural women were enrolled for this cross-sectional study from the catchment ruralareas of district Gujranwala between 15th September 2022 to 30th December 2022. A self-structuredand valid questionnaire was used to gather information regarding practice and knowledge related tobreast self-examination (BSE) and breast cancer risk factors. In this analysis, Statistical Package forSocial Sciences (SPSS) version 20 was used to analyse the data at a 95% confidence interval.Results: Average age of 396 rural women was 32.96±11.74 years and 25.25% of females were unawareof breast cancer. Only three out of fifteen risk factors were known by 1/3 of the participant which werefamily history of breast cancer, obesity and lack of breastfeeding. Out of the total population, themajority (84%) had no idea about breast self-examination (BSE) whereas only 16% know about theprocess of BSE.Conclusion: Most rural women were aware of breast cancer however the awareness level was low forthe associated risk factors. More importantly, despite being aware of breast cancer the vast majority(84%) had no knowledge or training of BSE.Keywords: Breast self-examination, risk factors, breast cancer
