[Evaluation of a program of breast self-examination training].
The study was concerned with an analysis of the first stage of evaluation of the breast self-examination training program aimed at early detection of cancer. The WHO-sponsored study was conducted in Moscow and embraced 3,097 females. Within the first six months after instruction, 1.3% sought medical advice. Out of the latter cases, pathologic changes were identified in the course of clinical examination in 29 females (breast cancer-2; nodular proliferative mastopathy-2).
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001940:Breast; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009031:Moscow; D010173:Palpation; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000379:methods*
Otsenochnyĭ étap programmy obucheniia samoobsledovaniiu molochnykh zhelez.