Breast cancer awareness

Breast cancer awareness among women in Indonesia is still very low. Reasons that make them reluctant to make early detection among others scared, shy and fears over the health of breast self-examination fee.

It is not surprising that about 70 percent coming Spasien are at stage three or four women realize the importance of detection delay. Early large part due to lack of education since their teens. According to him, psychological factors such as reluctance to share with family and friends, as well as breast self-examination negligent, or consult the experts are several contributing factors of breast cancer awareness.

As a result, breast cancer was discovered when it was already severe and can not be. Curable. And if you do detection" this early on can prevent the growth of breast cancer, which can iaja cause death.

The evidence suggests the number of cases of breast cancer in the world increased by an average 5-7 percent per year. WHO predicts the number of new breast cancer cases per year around 1.15 million people with nearly 575,000 cases were from developing countries.

Several studies have shown that the majority of developing countries have a middle income or even tend to be low, precisely hight potensial have breast cancer. But the survival rate of developing breast cancer is much lower than in developed countries.

Because most of them still do not notice the importance of breast self-examination (BSE) and the importance of doing regular breast checkups. Whereas early breast cancer can be prevented through regular screening and mammogran without spending a huge cost. That is breast cancer awareness.