This study is a questionary made among 675 women whose median age was 37,8 ± 14,8 . 135 of these women were medical staff and 540 were from general population.
63,8 % of the women enrolled in our questionary were performing BSE whereas 36,2 % of them did not. The prevalance of the BSE performed correctly was 6 % in medical staff and 0,42 % in general population. There was a statistically significant difference between the level of education socioeconomic, status and being a medical staff and the prevalance of BSE (p<0.001) whereas there was no statistically significant difference between the age and the prevalance of BSE (p > 0,05).
As a result medical staff especially the medical doctors should have greater responsibility in order to teach and generalize the BSE in the general population to diagnose early breast cancer
Keywords: Breast cancer, breast self examination
