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Awareness of breast cancer risk factors and practice of breast self examination among high school students in Turkey

BMC Public Health, 2008
Background Young breast cancer patients have a lower rate of survival than old breast cancer patients due to being diagnosed at advanced stages. Breast self-examination makes women more "breast aware", which in turn may lead to an earlier diagnosis of ...
Çetinkaya Aynur, Özmen Dilek, Karayurt Özgül   +2 more
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Assessment of breast self- examination practice and associated factors among female workers in Debre Tabor Town public health facilities, North West Ethiopia, 2018: Cross- sectional study.

PLoS ONE, 2019
BackgroundAlthough breast Self-Examination is no longer tenable as a standard method to detect early breast cancer, world health organization recommends breast self -examination for raising awareness of women about breast cancer.
Asrat Hailu Dagne, Alemu Degu Ayele, Ephrem Mengesha Assefa   +2 more
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Breast self-examination

British Medical Bulletin, 1991
Breast self-examination (BSE) continues to be widely promoted by Government agencies and medical practitioners in Europe and the United States. Point 10 of the European Code Against Cancer exhorts women to 'examine their breasts regularly'. Breast lumps are common and most women will detect a breast abnormality at some time in their life, irrespective ...
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Knowledge on breast cancer and practice of breast self examination among selected female university students in Malaysia. [PDF]

, 2011
Breast cancer is the most common cancer affecting women in most parts of the world including Malaysia. Even though breast self examination (BSE) is not seen as a relevant cancer screening tool anymore, it still plays an important role in the breast ...
Abd Manaf, Rosliza, Akhtari Zavare, Mehrnoosh, Ismail, Irmi Zarina, Juni, Muhamad Hanafiah, Md Said, Salmiah   +4 more
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Assessing Breast Self-Examination

Preventive Medicine, 1995
Women practice breast self-examination (BSE) according to their own schedule and skill. This variation in how BSE is performed has complicated the interpretation of studies of BSE efficacy and utilization.We compared two methods commonly used to assess BSE competency, self-report of practice and ability to detect lumps in a model, among 81 women ...
P A, Newcomb, S J, Olsen, F D, Roberts, B E, Storer, R R, Love   +4 more
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Breast Self-Examination Practice and Associated Factors Among Women Attending Family Planning Service in Modjo Public Health Facilities Southwest Ethiopia

Breast Cancer: Targets and Therapy, 2021
Meron Urga Workineh,1 Eyasu Alem Lake,2 Getachew Asmare Adella3 1Department of Public Health, Adama Hospital Medical College of Health Science and Medicine, Adama, Ethiopia; 2Department of Nursing, College of Health Science and Medicine, Wolaita Sodo ...
Urga Workineh M, Alem Lake E, Asmare Adella G   +2 more
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Prediction of breast self-examination in a sample of Iranian women: an application of the Health Belief Model [PDF]

, 2009
Background Iranian women, many of whom live in small cities, have limited access to mammography and clinical breast examinations. Thus, breast self examination (BSE) becomes an important and necessary approach to detecting this disease in its early ...
Sedigheh Sadat Tavafian, Laleh Hasani, Teamur Aghamolaei, Shahram Zare, David Gregory, P Pisani, H Zeeb, SS Yarbrough, K Rostgaard, S Jarvandi, NY Seif, NO Nahcivan, SM Mousavi, SM Mousavi, I Harirchi, SM Mousavi, A Montazeri, IA Avci, S Gozum, SY Fung, N Canbulat, JM Phillips, MK Salazar, MO Balogun, P Yavari, P Parsa, NS Leslie, VL Champion, A Montazeri, M Haji-Mahmoodi, VL Champion, VL Champion, VL Champion, R Hacihasanoglu, RA Smith, Z Heidari, S Secginli, EH Lee, W Petro-Nustus   +38 more
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Couple relationships as a factor related to the practice of breast self-examination in university students

Universidad y Salud, 2018
Introduction: There is controversy about the relationship between beliefs and the realization of breast self-examination in women and there is a lack of studies which show the influence that couples can have in that practice.
Anaid Guadalupe Martín-Díaz, Yolanda Campos-Uscanga, Claudia Gutiérrez-Sida   +2 more
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KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDE AND PRACTICE OF ADOLESCENTS ON BREAST SELF EXAMINATION, A STUDY DONE AMONG FIRST YEAR CERTIFICATE FEMALE STUDENTS IN ST. MICHAEL LUBAGA HOSPITAL TRAINING SCHOOL

Student's Journal of Health Research Africa, 2023
Background. Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer among women worldwide. Regular breast self-examination has been known to effectively detect breast cancer occurrence early.
Nassozi Maria Njogera , Clare Mukomuzibu , Nelson Kakande   +2 more
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Why are we still promoting breast self-examination? [PDF]

, 2006
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Tarrant, M
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