Breast examination as a cost-effective screening tool in a clinical practice setting in Ibadan, Nigeria

Ogunbode, Adetola M.; Fatiregun, Akinola Ayoola; Ogunbode, Olayinka Oladunjoye; Adebusoye, Lawrence A.

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“…BSE can be used as a reasonable and feasible approach in early detection and reduction of breast cancer mortality in developing countries. 24 Studies from India suggest, BSE can be used as a tool of creating breast health awareness among women and trained female health workers can play a promising role in disseminating this knowledge among women and increasing compliance to carry out BSE. 25,26,27 Utilisation of the services of our existing primary healthcare infrastructure and its facilities for opportunistic screening and health awareness classes by trained nonmedical community personnel such ASHA, anganwadi workers and Kudumbashree workers should be mentioned as one of the main activities in our future policies.…”

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Clinical Breast Cancer Screening- A Camp-Based Study Among Rural Women in North Kerala

Karunakaran¹,

Thekkandathil²,

Joseph³

et al. 2017

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BACKGROUND Early diagnosis of breast cancer is of extreme significance in improving the survival rates and quality of life. Unfortunately, studies have revealed that a major proportion of women from low-income countries are still not breast aware. MATERIALS AND METHODS In this study, Clinical Breast Examination (CBE) was done. In addition, we assessed the knowledge, attitude and practice of Breast Self-Examination (BSE). A cross-sectional study with quantitative method of data collection was conducted in a village in North Kerala. The study population was all women aged 20 years and above and who resided in the village for 6 months and more and they were motivated to attend the camps by community health workers from the same village. RESULTS Out of the 319 women who attended the CBE camps, 301 (94%) had heard of breast cancer and 113 (36%) had heard of it from community workers during their survey. Around 63% of the women knew at least one symptom of breast cancer while 73% did not know any risk factor. Only 234 (73%) had heard of BSE. Only 137 (43%) knew the right technique of BSE. Out of the 184 women who did BSE, 124 (67.4%) did it to examine breasts regularly, 5 (2.7%) did it because they had a family history of breast cancer, 52 (28.3%) following classes by community workers, 2 (1.1%) because their friends had breast cancer and 1 (0.5%) following a resected lump. Out of the 135 women who did not practice BSE, 36 (26.7%) did not know the method, 85 (63%) did not think it was important, 10 (7.4%) had no symptoms and 4 (2.9%) were scared of finding a lump. The women with either breast or axillary lumps (3.4%) were referred for mammography. CONCLUSION Utilisation of the services of primary healthcare facilities for opportunistic screening and health awareness classes by trained nonmedical community personnel should become main activities in our future policies. They should be trained for providing BSE training to women at their doorstep. This simple approach could reduce the burden of the disease to a significant extent.

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Clinical Breast Cancer Screening- A Camp-Based Study Among Rural Women in North Kerala

Karunakaran¹,

Thekkandathil²,

Joseph³

et al. 2017

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“…It was only 12% on the study in Kiewit [ 7 ]. Similarly, a study conducted in Nigeria showed that breast self-examination was only 18.1% [ 8 ]. BSE was also 28.1% in a study conducted in Debre Berhan town, Ethiopia [ 9 ].…”

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Breast self-examination practice and associated factors among women aged 20–70 years attending public health institutions of Adwa town, North Ethiopia

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ObjectiveBreast cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality worldwide. The incidence of breast has been increasing in most regions of the world. Regular breast self-examination is one of the most cost-effective methods for early detection of breast cancer in asymptomatic women. Despite this fact, breast self-examination practice remains low in Ethiopia. Therefore, the aim of this study is to assess breast self-examination practice and associated factors among women aged 20–70 years attending public health institutions of Adwa town, North Ethiopia.ResultsFrom the total study participants, only 26 (6.5%) of them had ever practice breast self-examination, and only 25 (6.25%) of them practice breast self-examination regularly. Being a government employee (AOR = 0.22, 95% CI = 0.071–0.683), having good perceived confidence to do breast self-examination (AOR = 5.32, 95% CI = 1.89–14.95) and having perceived good susceptibility to develop breast cancer (AOR = 3.79, 95% CI = 1.74–9.74) were the factors significantly associated with breast self-examination. Breast self-examination practice among the study participants was low. Therefore, informing every woman is susceptible to breast cancer, improving the confidence of women is recommended to increase breast self-examination practice.

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Breast examination as a cost-effective screening tool in a clinical practice setting in Ibadan, Nigeria

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Clinical Breast Cancer Screening- A Camp-Based Study Among Rural Women in North Kerala

Clinical Breast Cancer Screening- A Camp-Based Study Among Rural Women in North Kerala

Breast self-examination practice and associated factors among women aged 20–70 years attending public health institutions of Adwa town, North Ethiopia

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