Breast Self Awareness Essay

Breast self-examination knowledge and skills is an important facet in early detection of breast cancer. 3, 20 Although our study found high awareness of BSE among female university students, BSE practices were found to below as observed from the number of female students who had performed BSE at the time of the study. Even those who attempted to perform BSE, fewer had performed BSE once a month. Those that had not attempted BSE, still few could promise to perform BSE in the next month. Poor BSE practices as observed among female university students may be related to inadequate knowledge and skills in performing BSE. 26, 27 It is therefore imperative to establish to what extent do female university students can perform BSE in order to match the awareness scores.
Conclusion
Participants reported to have received information from mass media. Intermediate level of knowledge about breast cancer risk factors and breast cancer signs and symptoms was found among female university students. Breast self-examination (BSE) practices were found to be poor. Few female students regularly performed breast self- examination every month. There is need to equally emphasize the importance of breast self-examination as it is for cervical cancer screening. Health care providers providing cervical cancer screening to communities of interest should take advantage of the teaching moment and include breast cancer screening and education as a package. Pre-post education intervention studies need to be conduct among university female students to assess the knowledge and skills outcomes of the education session on breast cancer risk factors, signs and symptoms, BSE practices and techniques. Training all health care providers on BSE is the way to propagate BSE skills across the entire