“…The identified articles in Appendix A Table 1 present the regions generating empirical breast cancer research since 2017, originating from Western Asia (n=6), Eastern Asia (n=5), Southern Asia (n=5), South-Eastern Asia (n=5), Eastern Europe (n=3), South America (n=2), Northern Africa (n=2), Eastern Africa (n=1), Middle Africa (n=1), Northern America (n=1), Western Africa (n=1), and a multi-national collaboration (n=1) in which Turkish students demonstrated more BC understanding than Polish students. 22 Of the 33 selected articles, there were 27 descriptive cross-sectional studies, characterizing the prevalence of breast cancer awareness, five quasiexperimental interventions estimating the causal impact of specific breast cancer interventions, and one BCA scale development study. 23 All of the studies explored breast cancer awareness and knowledge, 30 studies addressed BSE, and 6 studies focused on attitudes towards breast cancer awareness.…”