TY - JOUR ID - 697255 TI - Comparison of Awareness Level about Breast Cancer Risk Factors, Presentations, and Screening Rules and Tools: A Cross-sectional Study on General Female Population JO - Journal of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Cancer Research JA - JOGCR LA - en SN - 2645-3991 AU - Moridi, Atefeh AU - Mahmoodi, Sudabeh AU - Rahmati, Nayereh AU - Fathi, Marzieh AU - Naeiji, Zahra AD - Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences (SBUMS), Tehran, Iran AD - Department of , Faculty of , Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran Y1 - 2021 PY - 2021 VL - 6 IS - 4 SP - 188 EP - 194 KW - Awareness KW - Breast cancer KW - Presentations KW - Screening KW - Risk Factors DO - 10.30699/jogcr.6.4.188 N2 - Background & Objective: Awareness of breast cancer risk factors, clinical presentations and screening rules and methods may encourage women to use preventive measures more commonly. Materials & Methods: A total of 691 women from general population were interviewed using a standardized questionnaire. Demographic data, level of awareness about risk factors, presentations and screening the breast cancer and their general perception about the treatment’s efficacy were evaluated.Results: Of the participants, 45.7% had “good” knowledge about the presentations of breast cancer while the level of awareness was “good” in 19.2% of them in field of risk factors (statistically significant difference). As only about 16% of them knew that women should perform breast self-examination once a month and about 15% of them were aware of the screening role of the annual clinician performed breast examination.Conclusion: Most of our participants had statistically significant lower level of knowledge about the risk factors and screening rules and tools of breast cancer than its clinical presentation. UR - https://www.jogcr.com/article_697255.html L1 - https://www.jogcr.com/article_697255_2e260aa41f01ab2014fa9a771e5c37b0.pdf ER -