Breast cancer awareness and breast self-examination among females in the Middle East and North Africa: a multinational cross-sectional study
Overall awareness was suboptimal, with most participants below the 'good' threshold. Drivers of awareness differed between general breast cancer knowledge and BSE, highlighting the need for age-tailored and education-tailored, channel-specific interventions codelivered with healthcare professionals and reinforced through targeted digital outreach. Given the cross-sectional design, these associations are non-causal and warrant confirmation in longitudinal studies.
Authors
- Fatema Shehab
- Noha Osman Frere (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6078-8790)
- Rayhana Trabelsi
- Esraa Abdelfattah Ibrahiem Awad
- Majid OMARI
- Zahra H. Alhoori
- A. Z Soliman
- Naiela E Almansouri (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0002-8103-751X)
- Baraa M. Ayesh (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4860-110X)
- Abdullrahman Elgarawany (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0007-0717-9225)
- Ahmed Eldaly (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-2863-4136)
- MAHMOUD AHMAD RABAYA FUAD
- Abrar Z Kadhem
- Hoda Aufy
- A.S. Elgahamy (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9685-8869)
- Farah Tarek Shaalan (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-2567-3355)
- Aya Ahmed Abdou
- Rola Nail Marie
- Sally Muhamed Seliem
- Israa Ahmed Qutob
- Soumia Cheriet
- Jenan Shabani
- Hadeel Khaled Albaoni (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-8209-8129)
- Ahmed I S Alnatsha
- Fatima Adel Abdulla
- Zahra Matrook
Institutions
- University of Jordan (JO)
- Hebron University (PS)
- Suez University (EG)
- Mansoura University (EG)
- Université de Mostaganem (DZ)
- Al-Azhar University (EG)
- Zagazig University (EG)
- Al-Quds University (PS)
- Salmaniya Medical Complex (BH)
- Tawam Hospital (AE)
- National School of Architecture (MA)
- National Health Insurance Fund (RS)
- Egyptian American Medical Center (EG)
- Children Cancer Hospital (EG)
- Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University (MA)
- Alexandria University (EG)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMJ Oncology
- Published
- 2025-12-01
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjonc-2025-000869
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.05