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This study developed and evaluated a socioculturally tailored intervention to improve knowledge, beliefs and clinical breast examination (CBE) among South Asian (SA) immigrant women. The intervention comprised a series of socioculturally tailored breast-health articles published in Urdu and Hindi community newspapers. A pre- and post-intervention design evaluated the impact of the mailed articles among 74 participants. The mean age of participants was 37 years (SD 9.7) and they had lived 6 years (SD 6.6) in Canada. After the intervention, there was a significant increase in self-reporting ‘ever had’ routine physical checkup (46.4–70.8%; p<0.01) and CBE (33.3–59.7%; p<0.001). Also, the total summed scores of accurate answers to 12 knowledge items increased (3.3–7.0; p<0.001). For constructs of health belief model, participants rated their level of agreement for a number of items on a scale of 1–4 …