标题：Influence of the acquaintance of risk factors of breast cancer amongst women in the age of 50-69 years as for performing prophylactic examinations by them
摘要：Breast cancer is the most frequent as well as, at the same time, most dangerous of cancers affecting women with regard to diagnosing it in the advanced stage being also characterised with the top degree of mortality of female patients worldwide. At present, it is the most frequent malignant tumour affecting Polish women [9]. Awareness of women about risk factors and the early diagnostic testing consisting in self-examination of breasts and also regular performance of mammographic examinations in the appropriate age may reduce, in the significant way, mortality amongst women affected with this illness by its early detecting and curing. This study is aimed at presenting the state of knowledge of women in the age of 50 - 69 concerned with risk factors of breast cancer and the frequency of performing prophylactic examinations by them.
