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A national survey to assess breast cancer awareness among the female university students of Pakistan

The incidence of breast cancer is increasing in Pakistan as well as globally. Awareness of women about breast cancer plays a cornerstone role in its early detection, better management, and prevention. Keeping this in mind, a cross-sectional study was carried out to assess the awareness of female uni...

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Autores principales: Hussain, Iltaf, Majeed, Abdul, Masood, Imran, Ashraf, Waseem, Imran, Imran, Saeed, Hamid, Ur Rehman, Anees, Hashmi, Furqan K., Saleem, Fahad, Akbar, Muqarrab, Chaudhry, Muhammad Omer, Ullah, Jamshid, Rasool, Muhammad Fawad
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8782286/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35061770
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262030
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author Hussain, Iltaf
Majeed, Abdul
Masood, Imran
Ashraf, Waseem
Imran, Imran
Saeed, Hamid
Ur Rehman, Anees
Hashmi, Furqan K.
Saleem, Fahad
Akbar, Muqarrab
Chaudhry, Muhammad Omer
Ullah, Jamshid
Rasool, Muhammad Fawad
author_facet Hussain, Iltaf
Majeed, Abdul
Masood, Imran
Ashraf, Waseem
Imran, Imran
Saeed, Hamid
Ur Rehman, Anees
Hashmi, Furqan K.
Saleem, Fahad
Akbar, Muqarrab
Chaudhry, Muhammad Omer
Ullah, Jamshid
Rasool, Muhammad Fawad
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description The incidence of breast cancer is increasing in Pakistan as well as globally. Awareness of women about breast cancer plays a cornerstone role in its early detection, better management, and prevention. Keeping this in mind, a cross-sectional study was carried out to assess the awareness of female university students about breast cancer’s risk factors, signs and symptoms, and breast cancer examination. The data was collected from female university students studying in Pakistan. A total of 774 participants completed the survey and recorded their responses on an online pre-tested self-administered questionnaire. Only 29.8% of the participants have identified breast cancer history in their first-degree relatives as a risk factor. Moreover, 14.1% of the participant considered that the use of oral contraceptives for more than 5 years can increase the risk of developing breast cancer. In addition, inward pulled nipple, wounds around the nipple, and abrupt changes in the breast size were considered as the sign and symptoms of breast cancer by 25.2%, 25.7%, and 31.7% of the participants, respectively. Moreover, only 20.9% of the participants identified the correct year for starting breast cancer examination and 44.4% of the respondents marked that mammography should be initiated after 40 years. Overall, the university female students of Pakistan were poorly aware of breast cancer’s risk factors, signs and symptoms, and breast examination. This study has highlighted the need for initiation of aggressive strategies regarding breast cancer awareness in both the literate and illiterate female population of Pakistan.
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spelling pubmed-87822862022-01-22 A national survey to assess breast cancer awareness among the female university students of Pakistan Hussain, Iltaf Majeed, Abdul Masood, Imran Ashraf, Waseem Imran, Imran Saeed, Hamid Ur Rehman, Anees Hashmi, Furqan K. Saleem, Fahad Akbar, Muqarrab Chaudhry, Muhammad Omer Ullah, Jamshid Rasool, Muhammad Fawad PLoS One Research Article The incidence of breast cancer is increasing in Pakistan as well as globally. Awareness of women about breast cancer plays a cornerstone role in its early detection, better management, and prevention. Keeping this in mind, a cross-sectional study was carried out to assess the awareness of female university students about breast cancer’s risk factors, signs and symptoms, and breast cancer examination. The data was collected from female university students studying in Pakistan. A total of 774 participants completed the survey and recorded their responses on an online pre-tested self-administered questionnaire. Only 29.8% of the participants have identified breast cancer history in their first-degree relatives as a risk factor. Moreover, 14.1% of the participant considered that the use of oral contraceptives for more than 5 years can increase the risk of developing breast cancer. In addition, inward pulled nipple, wounds around the nipple, and abrupt changes in the breast size were considered as the sign and symptoms of breast cancer by 25.2%, 25.7%, and 31.7% of the participants, respectively. Moreover, only 20.9% of the participants identified the correct year for starting breast cancer examination and 44.4% of the respondents marked that mammography should be initiated after 40 years. Overall, the university female students of Pakistan were poorly aware of breast cancer’s risk factors, signs and symptoms, and breast examination. This study has highlighted the need for initiation of aggressive strategies regarding breast cancer awareness in both the literate and illiterate female population of Pakistan. Public Library of Science 2022-01-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8782286/ /pubmed/35061770 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262030 Text en © 2022 Hussain et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Hussain, Iltaf
Majeed, Abdul
Masood, Imran
Ashraf, Waseem
Imran, Imran
Saeed, Hamid
Ur Rehman, Anees
Hashmi, Furqan K.
Saleem, Fahad
Akbar, Muqarrab
Chaudhry, Muhammad Omer
Ullah, Jamshid
Rasool, Muhammad Fawad
A national survey to assess breast cancer awareness among the female university students of Pakistan
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title_fullStr A national survey to assess breast cancer awareness among the female university students of Pakistan
title_full_unstemmed A national survey to assess breast cancer awareness among the female university students of Pakistan
title_short A national survey to assess breast cancer awareness among the female university students of Pakistan
title_sort national survey to assess breast cancer awareness among the female university students of pakistan
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8782286/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35061770
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0262030
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