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1 A review of breast cancer awareness among women in India: Cancer literate or awareness deficit? 
A. Gupta, K. Shridhar, P.K. Dhillon  European Journal of Cancer  Volume 51, Issue 14, Pages (September 2015) DOI: /j.ejca Copyright © 2015 The Authors Terms and Conditions

2 Fig. 1 Percent awareness of breast cancer risk factors from in the general female population of study by Rao et al. [20] is not shown, as there was no data on percent awareness of individual risk factors. Only overall awareness (9%) was reported. #Oral Contraceptive Pills (OCP). ^Trauma/Stress/abortion/radiation/’lifestyle’/Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT). ∗Yadav et al. (2010) [17] assessed knowledge of the breast cancer risk factor through only one question on ‘age’. The study broadly focussed on assessing the knowledge, symptoms, likelihood of developing breast cancer and awareness of diagnostic modalities for breast cancer. ∗∗Sharma et al. (2013) [19] evaluated knowledge of the breast cancer risk factor through only one question on ‘family history’. The study broadly focussed on assessing the awareness of common symptoms, methods of early detection and practice of breast self-examination (BSE) and clinical breast examination (CBE). European Journal of Cancer  , DOI: ( /j.ejca ) Copyright © 2015 The Authors Terms and Conditions

3 Fig. 2 Percent awareness of breast cancer risk factors from studies among health professionals (nurses and nursing students) in India. ∗Oral Contraceptive Pills (OCP). ∗∗Trauma/Stress/abortion/radiation/’lifestyle’/Hormone Replacement Therapy (HRT). European Journal of Cancer  , DOI: ( /j.ejca ) Copyright © 2015 The Authors Terms and Conditions


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