Breast self examination practices among female secondary school teachers in a rural community in Oyo State, Nigeria英文文献资料.docVIP

Open Journal of Nursing, 2012, 2, 111-115 OJN /10.4236/ojn.2012.22017 Published Online June 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ojn/) Breast self examination practices among female secondary school teachers in a rural community in Oyo State, Nigeria Joel Olayiwola Faronbi , Janet Abolade 1 2 1 2 Department of Nursing Science, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Nigeria University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria Email: faronbiy2k@yahoo.co.uk Received 29 January 2012; revised 8 March 2012; accepted 22 March 2012 ABSTRACT neoplasm among women [1]. Cancer in all forms is re- sponsible for about 12 percent of deaths throughout the world [2]. Breast cancer causes 376,000 deaths a year worldwide; about 900,000 women are diagnosed every year with the disease [1]. This could rates could further increase by 50% to 15 million [3]. Although the inci- dence of breast cancer in developing countries is rela- tively low [4], about 50% of all cases of breast cancer are diagnosed in these countries [4,5]. Asia and Africa have experienced a more rapid rise in the annual incidence rate of breast cancer than that of North America and Europe [6]. The disease has been reported to have an early onset among Nigerian women [7]. Cancer is a group of diseases that cause any affected part of the body to change and grow out of control. Most types of cancer cells form a lump or mass called tumour, when the tumour metastasize they are transported to an- other part of the body where they continue to grow [2]. Not all tumours are malignant, some are benign while some are malignant. Benign tumours do not grow and spread the way malignant (cancerous) tumours do, and they are usually not a threat to life [8]. Most types of cancer are named after the part of the body where the cancer first starts. Breast cancer begins in the breast tis- sues [8]. I