Aim The aim of the study was to determine the factors influencing women's knowledge
concerning breast cancer prophylaxis and find out the sources of the knowledge …

Introduction. According to statistics, breast cancer is the second leading cause of death in
Poland. Progress in treatment and diagnosis gives an opportunity of a quick diagnosis, but …

Purpose: We conduced a self administered questionnaire to explore women's knowledge
and beliefs about breast cancer prevention modalities. Methods: We distributed this …

Breast cancer is one of the most frequent malignant diseases among women. Breast cancer
detection at an early stage is possible thanks to the active attitude of women themselves …

Aim To find changes in the proportion of women who declared they were aware of breast
self examination (BSE) and performed it regularly in 1998 and in 2002, as well as in the …

In recent years, the increase in incidence of malignant tumours of breast has been observed
in Poland. Every year approximately 10 thousands of new cases of breast cancer are …

Increased mortality, morbidity and incidence of neoplastic diseases, malignancy especially,
has been observed in Poland for over 20 years. Death rate has increased from 19.34% to …

The goal of this project was to assess the kind, extent and knowledge about the actions
undertaken by nurses in the field of primary and derivative prophylaxis of breast cancer. The …

Introduction. Breast cancer is the most common malignancy in women. It is one of the
leading causes of death in the population of women in Poland. Purpose of the paper …

Rak piersi to najczęściej rozpoznawany nowotwór złośliwy wśród kobiet w Polsce. Choroba
ta stanowi istotny problem medyczny, ekonomiczny i społeczny. W Polsce rocznie ponad 16 …