Table 3.
Knowledge of breast cancer risk factors of KAP participants
| Risk Factors Response N (%) | |
|---|---|
| Being older can increase the chance of getting breast cancer | |
| Disagree | 399 (35.3%) |
| Not Sure | 565 (50.1%) |
| Agree | 165 (14.6%) |
| Not breastfeeding can increase the chance of getting breast cancer | |
| Disagree | 211 (18.7%) |
| Not Sure | 600 (53.1%) |
| Agree | 318 (28.2%) |
| Having a close relative with breast cancer can increase the chance of getting breast cancer | |
| Disagree | 414 (36.7%) |
| Not Sure | 544 (48.2%) |
| Agree | 171 (15.1%) |
| Long term hormone contraceptive use can increase the chance of getting breast cancer | |
| Disagree | 145 (12.9%) |
| Not Sure | 514 (45.5%) |
| Agree | 470 (41.6%) |
| Being overweight (BMI over 25) can increase the chance of getting breast cancer | |
| Disagree | 244 (21.6%) |
| Not Sure | 650 (57.6%) |
| Agree | 235 (20.8%) |
| Do you know any other risk factors? | Yes 84 (7.4%) |
| If Yes, Of or pertaining to food or drink† | 34 (40.5%) |
| If Yes, Traditional Healer/Traditional drugs‡ | 16 (19.0%) |
| If Yes, Of or pertaining to Bras and Clothes§ | 12 (14.3%) |
| If Yes, Other | 22 (26.2%) |
| What do you think your own chances are to develop breast cancer in your lifetime? | |
| Likely | 145 (12.8%) |
| Moderate | 273 (24.2%) |
| Unlikely | 107 (9.5%) |
| Don’t know | 604 (53.5%) |
| Early detection is important to surviving breast cancer | |
| Disagree | 14 (1.2%) |
| Not Sure | 299 (26.5%) |
| Agree | 816 (72.3%) |
| It is possible to treat breast cancer | |
| Disagree | 43 (3.8%) |
| Not Sure | 299 (26.5%) |
| Agree | 787 (69.7%) |
| There is treatment available for you to treat breast cancer in Mwanza? | |
| Disagree | 63 (5.6%) |
| Not Sure | 408 (36.1%) |
| Agree | 658 (58.3%) |
†Examples include: Food in general, Drinking Juice or Soda, Eating food from plastic containers, excessive alcohol consumption. ‡Examples include: Being vaccinated by a traditional healer, using traditional medicine for a long time, using drugs without a Medical Doctors approval, using drugs to enlarge breasts. §Examples include: Wearing secondhand clothes, wearing dirty or wet clothes, wearing a tight bra, wearing a black bra in the hot sun, keeping money in the bra