scholarly journals Knowledge, attitude and practice of Sri Lankan women towards breast cancer: A cross sectional study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.D. Ranaweera ◽  
P.M.C. Dinesha ◽  
C.A.K. Pathirage ◽  
P.W.D.N. Weerasinghe ◽  
D.M.K.N. Senarathna ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Early Detection ◽  
Signs And Symptoms ◽  
Good Knowledge ◽  
Screening Methods ◽  
Breast Cancers ◽  
Detection Techniques ◽  
Cancer Hospital

Abstract Introduction Breast cancer is a type of cancer that develops from breast tissue. Although the knowledge on breast cancer among women in Sri Lanka is high, their practice of breast self-examination is poor. This study was aimed to determine attitudes, practices and the awareness of early detection techniques and risk factors among women in Sri Lanka. Method A study was conducted between two groups in National Cancer hospital, Sri Lanka and a peripheral women clinic consisting 317 participants in each group. Self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data regarding the awareness of early detection techniques, signs and symptoms and risk factors for breast cancers. Results A total of 33.8% of peripheral women clinic and 65.0% in National Cancer hospital patients had good knowledge regarding risk factors. The knowledge of risk factors, signs and symptoms and screening methods about breast cancers was significantly high in patients attending to National cancer hospital. Older aged people have less awareness about screening methods compared to younger people. People with high education background and those have a family history of breast cancer had more aware about screening and therapeutic methods. Conclusion Comparative to the peripheral women clinic, patients attending to National Cancer Hospital had a fairly good knowledge, practice and attitude regarding the early detection techniques, risk factors, signs and symptoms.

scholarly journals Knowledge, attitude and practice of Sri Lankan women towards breast cancer: A cross sectional study

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
N.D. Ranaweera ◽  
P.M.C. Dinesha ◽  
C.A.K. Pathirage ◽  
P.W.D.N. Weerasinghe ◽  
D.M.K.N. Senarathna ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Early Detection ◽  
Signs And Symptoms ◽  
Good Knowledge ◽  
Screening Methods ◽  
Breast Cancers ◽  
Detection Techniques ◽  
Cancer Hospital

Abstract Introduction: Breast cancer is a type of cancer that develops from breast tissue. Although the knowledge on breast cancer among women in Sri Lanka is high, their practice of breast self-examination is poor. This study was aimed to determine attitudes, practices and the awareness of early detection techniques and risk factors among women in Sri Lanka. Method: A study was conducted between two groups in National Cancer hospital, Sri Lanka and a peripheral women clinic consisting 317 participants in each group. Self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data regarding the awareness of early detection techniques, signs and symptoms and risk factors for breast cancers. Results: A total of 33.8 % of peripheral women clinic and 65.0 % in National Cancer hospital patients had good knowledge regarding risk factors. The knowledge of risk factors, signs and symptoms and screening methods about breast cancers was significantly high in patients attending to National cancer hospital. Older aged people have less awareness about screening methods compared to younger people. People with high education background and those have a family history of breast cancer had more aware about screening and therapeutic methods. Conclusion: Comparative to the peripheral women clinic, patients attending to National Cancer Hospital had a fairly good knowledge, practice and attitude regarding the early detection techniques, risk factors, signs and symptoms. Key words : Breast cancer, Risk factors, Early detection techniques

scholarly journals Awareness of Breast Cancer and its Early Detection Measures among Female Students, Northern Ethiopia

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 213
Author(s):  
Tesfay Hailu ◽  
Hailemariam Berhe ◽  
Desta Hailu
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Early Detection ◽  
Sampling Technique ◽  
Knowledge Score ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Warning Signs ◽  
Northern Ethiopia ◽  
Breast Cancers ◽  
Cross Sectional

Globally breast cancer is the most common of all cancers. Since risk reduction strategies cannot eliminate the majority of breast cancers, early detection remains the cornerstone of breast cancer control. This paper, therefore, attempts to assess the awareness of breast cancer and its early detection measures among female students in Mekelle University, Ethiopia. An institution based cross-sectional study was conducted on randomly selected female students. Multistage sampling technique was employed to select the participants. A pre-tested structured questionnaire was used. Data analysis was carried out using SPSS version 16. In this study, 760 students participated making a response rate of 96 percent. Respondents with good knowledge score for risk factors, early detections measures and warning signs of breast cancer were 1.4 percent, 3.6 percent and 22.1 percent respectively. The majority 477 (62.8 percent) of participants practiced self-breast examination. In conclusion the participants had poor knowledge of risk factors, early detection measures and early warning signs of breast cancer.Therefore, the Ministry of health of Ethiopia together with its stalk holders should strengthen providing IEC targeting women to increase their awareness about breast cancer and its early detection measure.

scholarly journals Awareness of Breast Cancer Risk Factors, Symptoms and Breast Self-Examination Among Omani Female Teachers: A cross-sectional study

2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 194
Author(s):  
Zuweina Al-Ismaili ◽  
Khalid Al-Nasri ◽  
Amal Al-Yaqoobi ◽  
Ahmed Al-Shukaili
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Signs And Symptoms ◽  
Screening Methods ◽  
Cancer Awareness ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Breast Self Examination ◽  
Female Teachers ◽  
Breast Cancer Awareness ◽  
Self Examination

Objectives: This study aimed to assess knowledge of breast cancer (BC) risk factors, warning signs and symptoms and breast self-examination (BSE) practice among Omani female teachers in Al-Dhahira Governorate. Methods: A cross-sectional sample of female teachers aged 20–50 years was collected from January to December 2018 from three wilayats (provinces) in Al-Dhahira—Ibri, Dhank and Yunqal. A questionnaire that included the Breast Cancer Awareness Scale and demographic characteristics was administered. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics, regression analysis and Pearson’s Chi-square test. Results: A total of 478 female teachers were included in the study (response rate: 72.4%). The majority of participants (60.5%) had good overall knowledge about BC while 19.9% of participants had excellent overall knowledge. Only 9% of participants demonstrating excellent knowledge of BC risk factors. More than half of the participants (56.1%) reported excellent knowledge in screening methods. Unfortunately, only 57% of the female teachers indicated practising BSE. Knowledge of BC symptoms was closely divided between excellent and good levels (45.8 and 42.5%, respectively). BSE practice was significantly (P <0.05) correlated with overall knowledge of BC and its symptoms and screening methods, but not with knowledge of BC risk factors. Conclusion: This study revealed unsatisfactory overall knowledge of BC risk factors, symptoms, screening methods and BSE practice among female Omani teachers in Al-Dhahira Governorate. These findings constitute a challenge to healthcare providers to continue developing awareness of BC and providing health information to the public.Keywords: Breast Cancer; Awareness; Knowledge; Breast Self-Examination; Risk factors; Signs and Symptoms; Oman.

scholarly journals Upaya Meningkatkan Deteksi Dini Kanker Payudara di SMKN 1 Cijulang Kabupaten Pangandaran

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 165-170
Author(s):  
Muhammad Hasan Bashari ◽  
Hermin Aminah Usman ◽  
Dika Widia Nur Azizah ◽  
Defi Ardia Pramesti ◽  
Arima Kurnia Sari Dewi Nurcahyani ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
High School ◽  
Early Detection ◽  
Community Service ◽  
Signs And Symptoms ◽  
Female Students ◽  
Vocational High School ◽  
Adolescent Women ◽  
Self Examination

EFFORTS TO IMPROVE EARLY DETECTION OF BREAST CANCER IN CIJULANG 1 VOCATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL, PANGANDARAN REGENCY. The high mortality rate of breast cancer (BC) patients in Indonesia is associated with conditions of most patients come to doctor in an advanced stage of BC. This is due to the low BC awareness of Indonesian women. This community service program (PPM) is intended to increase knowledge of adolescent women about early detection of BC. This action was conducted by BC awareness workshop to 114 female students of Vocational High School (SMK) 1 Cijulang, Pangandaran district, West Java. The profile of participants showed that 64% of participants are 17 years old and mostly from Cijulang and Cimerak sub-districts. In addition, the majority of participants were not aware of BC, indicated by lack of knowledge of BC signs and symptoms (97%), and low confident of doing breast self-examination (BSE) (30%). Moreover, there were 7% of the participants were smoking which is known to be one of the major risk factors for BC. These findings point out conducting a program for increasing BC awareness among students. The program was managed by mini-lecture that focuses on BC risk factors, BC early detection and BSE (SADARI) using videos and simulation on a mannequin. This program was expected to have an impact on their families, indirectly. Ultimately, this will increase the finding of new cases of BC which will increase their life expectancy.

scholarly journals Awareness of breast cancer and estimation of its predicted future risk among females of urban slums of or above 35 years of age: a cross sectional study

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 1004
Author(s):  
Sheetal K. Aurangabadkar ◽  
Ashwini A. Dangi ◽  
Medha V. Deo
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Early Detection ◽  
Tobacco Consumption ◽  
Cross Sectional Study ◽  
Urban Slums ◽  
Screening Methods ◽  
Sectional Study ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Detection And Identification

Background: Early detection and identification of the risk factors is crucial in minimizing morbidity and mortality arising due to breast cancer. Research has proven that, physiotherapist as a part of multidisciplinary team, plays an important role in treating these patients after surgery. However, evidence suggesting the role of physiotherapist in the domain of health promotion and prevention is limited. Thus an effort is made in this study to explore the level of awareness about the risk factors and prevention and to predict the percent risk of having breast cancer in future five years.Methods: A cross sectional study was conducted in the urban slums of Turbhe. 200 females aged 35 years and above were selected. A self structured questionnaire was formed using Gail’s model. The questionnaire was validated and a house to house survey was conducted.Results: 67.5% females thought that alcohol/tobacco consumption carried the highest risk of breast cancer. 61.5% females were aware of lack of breast feeding as the risk factor for breast cancer. 74% females did not know about breast self – examination while 78.5% had not heard about mammography as screening methods for breast cancer prevention. 14.5% females carried a high risk of getting breast cancer in the future five years.Conclusions: Awareness of study participants about breast cancer was very poor. There is a need for awareness programs to educate women about risk factors and promotion of early detection of breast cancer.

scholarly journals Performance Analysis of Data Mining Techniques for the Prediction Breast Cancer Risk on Big Data

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Solmaz Sohrabei ◽  
Alireza Atashi
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Neural Network ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Data Mining ◽  
Artificial Neural Network ◽  
Early Detection ◽  
Breast Cancers ◽  
Data Mining Techniques ◽  
Naive Bayesian ◽  
Naïve Bayesian

Introduction: Early detection breast cancer Causes it most curable cancer in among other types of cancer, early detection and accurate examination for breast cancer ensures an extended survival rate of the patients. Risk factors are an important parameter in breast cancer has an important effect on breast cancer. Data mining techniques have a growing reputation in the medical field because of high predictive capability and useful classification. These methods can help practitioners to develop tools that allow detecting the early stages of breast cancer.Material and Methods: The database used in this paper is provided by Motamed Cancer Institute, ACECR Tehran, Iran. It contains of 7834 records of breast cancer patients clinical and risk factors data. There were 4008 patients (52.4%) with breast cancers (malignant) and the remaining 3617 patients (47.6%) without breast cancers (benign). Support vector machine, multi-layer perceptron, decision tree, K nearest neighbor, random forest, naïve Bayesian models were developed using 20 fields (risk factor) of the database because database feature was restrictions. Used 10-fold crossover for models evaluate. Ultimately, the comparison of the models was made based on sensitivity, specificity and accuracy indicators.Results: Naïve Bayesian and artificial neural network are better models for the prediction of breast cancer risks. Naïve Bayesian had accuracy of 93%, specificity of 93.32%, sensitivity of 95056%, ROC of 0.95 and artificial neural network had accuracy of 93.23%, specificity of 91.98%, sensitivity of 92.69%, and ROC of 0.8.Conclusion: Strangely the different artificial intelligent calculations utilized in this examination yielded close precision subsequently these techniques could be utilized as option prescient instruments in the bosom malignancy risk considers. The significant prognostic components affecting risk pace of bosom disease distinguished in this investigation, which were approved by risk, are helpful and could be converted into choice help devices in the clinical area.

scholarly journals Awareness of cervical and breast cancer among women attending OBG out-patient department of a medical college hospital, Bangalore

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 2104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jayanthi Srikanth ◽  
Kavya G. Upadhya ◽  
Pankaj Kumar
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Cervical Cancer ◽  
Pap Smear ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Good Knowledge ◽  
Screening Methods ◽  
College Hospital ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Patient Department

Background: Cancers of the cervix and breast are common among Indian women. Majority of the women are not aware of the symptoms or screening methods and report late. Hence the current study was done to assess their knowledge and provide information regarding early detection.Methods: A cross-sectional study was done in the OBG out-patient department of Kempegowda Institute of Medical Science Hospital, Bangalore over a period of 3 months and 205 women aged 18 years and above were the study subjects. The awareness of the study subjects regarding cervical and breast cancer was assessed using a pre-tested semi-structured proforma. The data was analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics.Results: Among 205 study subjects interviewed, the study subjects who had heard about cervical cancer were 173 (84.4%) and those who had heard about breast cancer were 202 (98.5%). Out of 173 subjects who had heard about cervical cancer, 139 (80.3%) had good knowledge regarding the symptoms and 102 (58.9%) knew about the risk factors. The fact that cervical cancer could be detected early was known to 113 (65.3%) subjects but only 57 (32.9%) were aware of a pap smear. Out of 202 subjects who had heard about breast cancer, 159 (78.7%) had good knowledge regarding the symptoms and 74 (36.6%) knew about the risk factors. The fact that breast cancer could be detected early was known to 143 (70.8%) subjects but only 42 (20.8%) were aware of mammogram.Conclusions: Majority of the study subjects had reasonable knowledge of the symptoms and risk factors of cervical and breast cancer but the knowledge regarding screening test for early detection of these cancers was poor.

scholarly journals Knowledge, beliefs and practices about breast cancer and its self-examination procedure among urban and rural women of district Gurdaspur, Punjab, India: a cross sectional study

2016 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 120
Author(s):  
Jagmahender Singh Sehrawat ◽  
. Garima ◽  
Suman Mor
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Early Detection ◽  
Rural Women ◽  
Treatment Strategies ◽  
Public Health Intervention ◽  
Detection Methods ◽  
Screening Methods ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Self Examination

Background: The entire world is at the risk of various dreadful diseases and cancer is one of them. Most of the victims seek medical interventions at advanced stage of breast cancer due to lack of awareness about its risk factors, symptoms, early detection methods and treatment. Present study was conducted to assess the knowledge levels, beliefs and the practices about breast cancer among both rural and urban women of Gurdaspur (Punjab) in an attempt to spread awareness and remove the fear of an unwarranted trauma among target population.Methods: Data was generated by interviewing 300 Gurdaspur (Punjab) women (20-40 years) through a pre-structured questionnaire designed to collect information about their knowledge of breast cancer, its causative factors, screening methods, treatments and beliefs.Results: Mean age of the participants was 41±5 years. More than 80% women had heard about breast cancer from family members or friends. About 70% women had knowledge about symptoms of this traumatic disease and more than half of them had heard about the practice of breast self-examination, though only 8.9% urban and 5.2% rural women had ever practiced it. Awareness of breast cancer was found significantly associated with age, marital status, educational level and socioeconomic status of the woman.Conclusions: Participants had a very limited knowledge about symptoms, screening procedure, risk factors, treatment of breast cancer etc. Some public health intervention and evaluation programs are urgently required to educate women about early detection and treatment strategies of breast cancer to reduce mortality from this disease.

scholarly journals Attributes, Performance, and Gaps in Current & Emerging Breast Cancer Screening Technologies

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 122-131
Author(s):  
Hina M. Ismail ◽  
Christopher G. Pretty ◽  
Matthew K. Signal ◽  
Marcus Haggers ◽  
J. Geoffrey Chase
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Cancer Screening ◽  
Early Detection ◽  
Breast Cancer Screening ◽  
Screening Tests ◽  
Screening Methods ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Screening Programs ◽  
Detection Techniques ◽  
Wide Range

Background:Early detection of breast cancer, combined with effective treatment, can reduce mortality. Millions of women are diagnosed with breast cancer and many die every year globally. Numerous early detection screening tests have been employed. A wide range of current breast cancer screening methods are reviewed based on a series of searchers focused on clinical testing and performance. </P><P> Discussion: The key factors evaluated centre around the trade-offs between accuracy (sensitivity and specificity), operator dependence of results, invasiveness, comfort, time required, and cost. All of these factors affect the quality of the screen, access/eligibility, and/or compliance to screening programs by eligible women. This survey article provides an overview of the working principles, benefits, limitations, performance, and cost of current breast cancer detection techniques. It is based on an extensive literature review focusing on published works reporting the main performance, cost, and comfort/compliance metrics considered.Conclusion:Due to limitations and drawbacks of existing breast cancer screening methods there is a need for better screening methods. Emerging, non-invasive methods offer promise to mitigate the issues particularly around comfort/pain and radiation dose, which would improve compliance and enable all ages to be screened regularly. However, these methods must still undergo significant validation testing to prove they can provide realistic screening alternatives to the current accepted standards.

scholarly journals Measuring knowledge and practice in relation to breast cancer screening in mothers in Pakistan

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 81
Author(s):  
Sharmeen Amin ◽  
Zafeer Ahmed Yazdani ◽  
Ankush Jha ◽  
Deepika Sriram ◽  
Hinozia Merchant ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Breast Cancer ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Risk Factor ◽  
Signs And Symptoms ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Breast Diseases ◽  
P Value ◽  
Screening Methods ◽  
Early Screening ◽  
Cross Sectional

Background: Breast cancer is a major health burden mainly in the developed countries but its rates are also increasing in the developing countries. With such increasing rates of breast cancer it is imperative that the general population is aware of its risk factors, early screening methods and the preventive measures that can be undertaken before its development.Objective: To assess the awareness of breast-self-examination (BSE) & screening among the mothers belonging to different socioeconomic groups in Karachi, Pakistan. To assess the awareness of breast lump & its relation with breast cancer in mothers.Methods: This is a cross sectional research study constituting on a sample size of 284 people. The data was collected using a self administered questionnaire which was designed after detailed literature review. The date was collected from all 5 districts of Karachi, Pakistan. The duration of data collection was from April 2013 to November 2013. The data was analyzed using spss 19 with a 95% confidence interval and a 5% margin of error. A p-value of .05 or less was considered significant.Results: The results showed that most of the women (81%) have sufficient general knowledge about breast cancer and its outcomes but the awareness regarding the risk factors was limited. Only 38% were aware that old age is a risk factor, 34.9% knew that null parity is a risk factor while 57.7% believed that trauma to the breast, for example child hitting the breast, cause breast disease. The women were only partially aware of the screening methods available, only 53.2% of women knew how to self-examine their breast and 69% of them were not aware of the fact that mammography is the basic screening procedure. Results are similar for knowledge about signs and symptoms and only 46.8% were aware that bloody discharge and inward retraction of nipple may be due to breast cancer. Despite the limited current awareness about the breast diseases most women (82.4%) showed interest in learning more information about breast diseases and how might they be prevented.Conclusions: The study concluded that though the mothers were aware of breast cancer they still require sufficient knowledge regarding its risks, methods of screening and means to prevent it. In accordance with this need more initiatives should be undertaken to spread more awareness regarding this through media or other useful sources. But increasing awareness alone cannot deliver the desired results and there is a parallel need to increase the facilities and to make them accessible for all. Steps should also be undertaken to educate the women about their misconceptions regarding breast cancer and to make them free from unnecessary barriers as many women do not seek clinical advice due to these barriers.

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