Background: Cancer, a major cause of morbidity and mortality in India can be prevented by early detectionthrough screening, for which, awareness is essential. Aim: Determining cancer awareness among low socioeconomicwomen in Mumbai. Settings and Design: Community based cancer screening study using a mobilevan. Materials and methods: Data of consenting participants, collected using structured questionnaire, wasdifferentiated into good and poor level of awareness using point based grading procedure. Results: Mean age of182 participants, majority (90.5%) belonging to lower socioeconomic strata, was 43.0±8.8 years. Knowledge aboutcancer (84.6%) was good compared to knowledge of cancer screening (35.1%), awareness being higher amongricher and more educated. Major sources of information were friends or relatives (46.1%) and media (35.2%).Only 6.6% had undergone prior screening. Conclusion: In spite of appreciable knowledge about cancer, creatingawareness about screening, its availability, and motivating the general population for screening is necessary.
(2011). Level of Cancer Awareness among Women of Low Socioeconomic Status in Mumbai Slums. Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention, 12(5), 1295-1298.
MLA
. "Level of Cancer Awareness among Women of Low Socioeconomic Status in Mumbai Slums". Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention, 12, 5, 2011, 1295-1298.
HARVARD
(2011). 'Level of Cancer Awareness among Women of Low Socioeconomic Status in Mumbai Slums', Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention, 12(5), pp. 1295-1298.
VANCOUVER
Level of Cancer Awareness among Women of Low Socioeconomic Status in Mumbai Slums. Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention, 2011; 12(5): 1295-1298.