Increased mortality, morbidity and incidence of @entity5 , @entity5 especially, has been observed in Poland for over 20 years. Death rate has increased from 19.34% to 22.13% in male population and from 16.68% to 18.48% in females in 1987-1996. The prognosis for 2010 estimates ca 70,000 @entity204 in males and ca 40,0000 in females. In the male population, among @entity5 , @entity2 accounts for the biggest number of @entity204 . In the female population the first place is taken by @entity0 . @entity0 is likely to develop in any age, however it increases significantly with age. Among the causes is the lack of knowledge about self-detection of alarming signs and symptoms within breasts that should arouse their concern. The purpose of the study was to answer the following questions: 1. Do young @entity1 know the technique of self-examination of the breasts? 2. Where did they learn about the necessity of breast self-examination? 3. Do they self-examine breasts?

Self-examination of breasts as an element of XXXX prophylaxis.

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['women'] @entity0 :: ('MESH:D001943', 'Disease') :: ['Breast cancer', 'breast cancer'] @entity5 :: ('MESH:D009369', 'Disease') :: ['neoplastic diseases', 'malignancy', 'malignancies'] @entity2 :: ('MESH:D008175', 'Disease') :: ['lung cancer'] @entity204 :: ('MESH:D003643', 'Disease') :: ['deaths']
@entity0 :: (MESH:D001943,Disease) :: ['breast cancer']
