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Healthy women need better understanding of disease incidence, risk factors.
2004 NOV 4 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Results of a study in Germany suggest healthy women need a better understanding of breast cancer incidence and risk factors.
According to U.G. Pohls and colleagues, "The efficacy of early breast cancer detection programs seems to be mainly influenced by the awareness of breast cancer in general among healthy women. This study aimed to provide information about women's understanding of breast cancer incidence and risk of disease.
"Based on a newly-developed questionnaire 2,108 healthy women were asked about their knowledge and perceptions in relation to breast cancer incidence, risk factors, risk perception, and level of concern," the researchers said.
"Of these women 78.8% were well aware of breast cancer in general terms. However, there were major aspects such as incidence or risk factors that were poorly understood:
* Only one-third correctly estimated the incidence of breast cancer;
* 95% understood breast cancer in the familial history as a risk factor, but only 57% understood the age risk;
* 37.1% of women perceived hormonal contraceptives and 35.9% hormonal replacement therapy as risk factors of breast cancer. The latter estimation was ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Healthy women need better understanding of disease incidence, risk...