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Background:Breast Cancer (BC) being the second most common cancer globally, impacting 2.1 million women every year, and also causing the highest number of cancer-related deaths among women. BC is the most commoncancerin most cities and second most common in ruralIndia. BC is considered as disease of rich lately, but due to westernisation it is now a disease in moderate and low economic countries too. Methods:A cross-sectional study was conducted among 225 women with a pre-tested, semi structured questionnaire in order to assess their knowledge regarding Breast Cancer. Data collected was analysed using SPSS software. Results:83.1% of the participants knew that breast cancer is a killer disease and only 11.1% knew about breast self-examination and only 5.8% do BSE. Lacking knowledge about procedure of BSE (100%) was identified as important barrier for conducting BSE among women who were aware of it and not practicing. Conclusions:majority of the women were aware of breast cancer but doesn’t have clue regarding breast self-examination and very few participants were practising BSE. |
