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Awareness on breast cancer screening in Malaysia: a cross sectional study

Introduction: The increasing rate of breast cancer (BC) incidence in Malaysia hints a lack of awareness among Malaysians. One (1) woman out of nineteen (19) is at risk with BC and almost up to fifty percent (50%) of women diagnosed with BC were reported to be under the age of fifty (50). Our main co...

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Autores principales: Lee, Mun-Seng, ‘Azmiyaty Amar Ma’ ruf, Choiriyatul, Nadhirah Izhar, Dayang Puteri, Nafisah Ishak, Sayyida, Wan Jamaluddin, Wan Syazana, Ya’acob, Syafiqah Nadiah Mohd, Kamaluddin, Muhammad Nazrullah
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Publicado: EDP Sciences 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6711317/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31453799
http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/bmdcn/2019090318
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author Lee, Mun-Seng
‘Azmiyaty Amar Ma’ ruf, Choiriyatul
Nadhirah Izhar, Dayang Puteri
Nafisah Ishak, Sayyida
Wan Jamaluddin, Wan Syazana
Ya’acob, Syafiqah Nadiah Mohd
Kamaluddin, Muhammad Nazrullah
author_facet Lee, Mun-Seng
‘Azmiyaty Amar Ma’ ruf, Choiriyatul
Nadhirah Izhar, Dayang Puteri
Nafisah Ishak, Sayyida
Wan Jamaluddin, Wan Syazana
Ya’acob, Syafiqah Nadiah Mohd
Kamaluddin, Muhammad Nazrullah
author_sort Lee, Mun-Seng
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description Introduction: The increasing rate of breast cancer (BC) incidence in Malaysia hints a lack of awareness among Malaysians. One (1) woman out of nineteen (19) is at risk with BC and almost up to fifty percent (50%) of women diagnosed with BC were reported to be under the age of fifty (50). Our main concern is to study the level of awareness among the women on risk factors, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, preventions and treatments. Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted exclusively among women in the public with total sample of three hundred and forty six (346), questionnaires were distributed using a simple random technique. Data was collected and analyzed by student T test in SPPS version 20. Results: Our study reveals insufficient awareness on BC. Overall, awareness on risk factors is inadequate, but good knowledge on the importance of family history and diet as risk factors are discovered. Awareness on the cause and clinical manifestations of BC is required for improvement. As for treatment, alternatives especially surgery and chemotherapy are unclear to public, public is remotely unwitting on cessation of smoking to prevent BC at the early stage. Conclusion: Malaysian has spaces for improvement on awareness of BC in terms of risk factors, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment and prevention. Early detection can be achieved with good awareness because it leads to better prognosis and lower mortality.
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spelling pubmed-67113172019-09-12 Awareness on breast cancer screening in Malaysia: a cross sectional study Lee, Mun-Seng ‘Azmiyaty Amar Ma’ ruf, Choiriyatul Nadhirah Izhar, Dayang Puteri Nafisah Ishak, Sayyida Wan Jamaluddin, Wan Syazana Ya’acob, Syafiqah Nadiah Mohd Kamaluddin, Muhammad Nazrullah Biomedicine (Taipei) Original Article Introduction: The increasing rate of breast cancer (BC) incidence in Malaysia hints a lack of awareness among Malaysians. One (1) woman out of nineteen (19) is at risk with BC and almost up to fifty percent (50%) of women diagnosed with BC were reported to be under the age of fifty (50). Our main concern is to study the level of awareness among the women on risk factors, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, preventions and treatments. Method: A cross-sectional study was conducted exclusively among women in the public with total sample of three hundred and forty six (346), questionnaires were distributed using a simple random technique. Data was collected and analyzed by student T test in SPPS version 20. Results: Our study reveals insufficient awareness on BC. Overall, awareness on risk factors is inadequate, but good knowledge on the importance of family history and diet as risk factors are discovered. Awareness on the cause and clinical manifestations of BC is required for improvement. As for treatment, alternatives especially surgery and chemotherapy are unclear to public, public is remotely unwitting on cessation of smoking to prevent BC at the early stage. Conclusion: Malaysian has spaces for improvement on awareness of BC in terms of risk factors, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, treatment and prevention. Early detection can be achieved with good awareness because it leads to better prognosis and lower mortality. EDP Sciences 2019-08-27 /pmc/articles/PMC6711317/ /pubmed/31453799 http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/bmdcn/2019090318 Text en © Author(s) 2019. This article is published with open access by China Medical University Open Access This article is distributed under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0) which permits any use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided original author(s) and source are credited.
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Lee, Mun-Seng
‘Azmiyaty Amar Ma’ ruf, Choiriyatul
Nadhirah Izhar, Dayang Puteri
Nafisah Ishak, Sayyida
Wan Jamaluddin, Wan Syazana
Ya’acob, Syafiqah Nadiah Mohd
Kamaluddin, Muhammad Nazrullah
Awareness on breast cancer screening in Malaysia: a cross sectional study
title Awareness on breast cancer screening in Malaysia: a cross sectional study
title_full Awareness on breast cancer screening in Malaysia: a cross sectional study
title_fullStr Awareness on breast cancer screening in Malaysia: a cross sectional study
title_full_unstemmed Awareness on breast cancer screening in Malaysia: a cross sectional study
title_short Awareness on breast cancer screening in Malaysia: a cross sectional study
title_sort awareness on breast cancer screening in malaysia: a cross sectional study
topic Original Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6711317/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31453799
http://dx.doi.org/10.1051/bmdcn/2019090318
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