@ARTICLE{S. Besharat, author = {S. Besharat, and S. Bakhshandehnosrat, and M.R. Rabiee, and }, title = {AWARENESS OF THE FEMALE STUDENTS, HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL AND PATIENTS TO SELF BREAST EXAM }, volume = {17}, number = {39}, abstract ={ The most common site of cancer in women is breast, and breast cancer is the second cause of death in women fortunately, breast self exam (BSE) is a simple, noninvasive rout to early diagnosis of this fatal disease.   So, in order to assess the knowledge level of the mentioned groups about (BSE) we conducted a descriptive, cross-sectional study and 428 subjects within which 208 patients, 155 students and the rest, health care personnels participated in our research.   Findings revealed that the level of awareness of 52.3% of the participants was low and it was good in 17.1%, whereas we put the rest in a border line domain. We also found that level of awareness was higher in midwifery students (P }, URL = {http://ijn.iums.ac.ir/article-1-45-en.html}, eprint = {http://ijn.iums.ac.ir/article-1-45-en.pdf}, journal = {Iran Journal of Nursing}, doi = {}, year = {2004} }