Knowledge, attitudes and behaviors in the prevention of breast cancer in women in Iran: A Review of the Evidence

Introduction: Breast cancer is one of the most common malignant diseases of women throughout the world and is one of the main causes of cancer death in developed and developing countries. Breast cancer in Iranian women is about a decade earlier than women in developed countries. The prognosis of breast cancer is a stage in the diagnosis of a disease that is diagnosed with it, for patients with locally diagnosed disease, a 5-year survival rate of about 80%. Due to the high importance of this cancer, this study aims to investigate Knowledge, attitudes and preventive behaviors of breast cancer in Iranian women.method: This review study is available on scientific sites: Pubmed, Embase, MEDLINE. siencedirect Sid, SCOPUS and the search engine Google Scholar with keywords: breast cancer, awareness, attitudes and preventive behaviors in Iran between 1997 and 2018. The number of initial articles has been 65, and the number of final papers has been reviewed 20. The articles in the descriptive-analytical group have been studiedResults :The results of studies conducted in Iran show that, despite a positive attitude and a fairly good awareness, preventive behaviors have been reported to be poorly reported. According to studies, only about 23% of women performed breast examinations. According to other findings, only 53.7% of the subjects were diagnosed with breast cancer and at least one breast cancer screening method they had.Conclusion:Therefore, the need for more attention to promote screening methods and more emphasis on their performance by health care providers can be effective in modifying the current trends in our country. Therefore, it is suggested that regular implementation of educational interventions to improve awareness and attitude towards breast cancer in To prevent the disease, attention should be paid to high-school girls and older age groups.

کلیدواژه ها:

Breast Cancer ، Knowledge ، Preventive Behavior ، Iran ، woman