TY - JOUR JF - IJN JO - IJN VL - 17 IS - 39 PY - 2004 Y1 - 2004/10/01 TI - AWARENESS OF THE FEMALE STUDENTS, HEALTH CARE PERSONNEL AND PATIENTS TO SELF BREAST EXAM TT - بررسی آگاهی دانشجویان مونث، پرسنل درمانی و مراجعه کنندگان به مرکز آموزشی درمانی دزیانی گرگان نسبت به خودآزمایی پستان N2 -  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 SP - 71 EP - 78 AU - S. Besharat, AU - S. Bakhshandehnosrat, AU - M.R. Rabiee, AD - KW - Breast cancer KW - Knowledge KW - BSE KW - Women UR - http://ijn.iums.ac.ir/article-1-45-en.html ER -