Knowledge and Practices on Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Methods among Female Health Care Workers: A Sri Lankan Experience

Abstract

cancer among females in Sri Lanka and accounted for 25.4% of the total cancers while cervical cancer ranked the second with 12%. In Sri Lanka, the Age Standardized Rate per 100000 population for female breast and cervical

Association of Knowledge, Attitude and Demographic Variables with Cervical Pap Smear Practice in Nepal

“…The data reveal that Nepal is below the average among developing countries and our data is twice as low as the global figure. Data of a few studies in different countries regarding pap smear coverage are given below: 7% in rural India (Shekhar et al, 2013), 9.8% in South Africa (Hoque E and Hoque M, 2009),17.2% in Sri Lanka (Nilaweera et al, 2012), 27.1% in Iran (Chamani et al, 2012) and 45.2% in South Turkey (Coskun et al, 2013). Developed countries are far ahead because of both organized and opportunistic pap screening programs.…”

“…Among them, ''not receiving advice to do the test from health care workers'' is the most common one for not doing the test in multiple studies (Al-Naggar et al, 2010;Chamani et al, 2012;Thippeveeranna et al, 2013). In studies carried out in South Africa, Malaysia and Sri Lanka, women did not like to have pap smear test done because of fear at the prospect that the test may reveal malignancy (Hoque E and Hoque M, 2009;Al-Naggar et al, 2010;Nilaweera et al, 2012 ). Lack of symptoms was cited by participants as the reason for not doing pap smear test in studies done in Nepal and India (Shekhar et al, 2013;Shrestha et al, 2013).…”

Years of Potential Life Lost Due to Breast and Cervical Cancer: a Challenge for Brazilian Public Policy

“…However there are obstacles to preventing these neoplasms as the hesitation to visit the physician, patient's embarrassment and lack of knowledge about the risk factors and screening methods (Nilaweera et al, 2012). Public policy in this area has been developed in Brazil since the 1980s aimed at preventing and reducing cancer.…”

Effectiveness of an Educational Intervention among Public Health Midwives on Breast Cancer Early Detection in the District of Gampaha, Sri Lanka

“…CBE and mammography were known by 94.1% and 64.3% respectively. Only 19.2% had undergone a CBE within one year and 3.6% had ever undergone a mammography (Nilaweera et al, 2012).…”