Breast Cancer Screening in Rural Azerbaijan State - Analysis of Strategy and Methods

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Abstract

In this study we try to explore the factors that uptake the screening of breast cancer in Azerbaijan. The health care costs in Azerbaijan. This research can help formulate related policies that are directed at removing the barriers to accessing medical care and targeting those at-risk groups. The research aims to provide additional evidence of the factors affecting the utilization of preventive care among women in Azerbaijan which are comparable to those of other countries, and may shed further light on the issue of promoting cancer screening and women's health.

Table of Contents

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION6

CHAPTER 2: LITERATURE REVIEW12

Factors affecting the uptake of screening in Breast cancer13

1. Availability of resources15

2. Working on round length correction.16

3. Sending 2nd time appointments for non-attenders.17

4. Conducting 'never screened initiative'.23

5-Identification of the scale of private mammograms in Azerbaijan28

REFERENCES39

Chapter 1: Introduction

Breast cancer is the most common female cancer and one of the leading causes of death among women internationally. Information about risk factors for breast cancer and their relative importance needs to be communicated to women in the community. In particular, the importance of age as the biggest risk factor for breast cancer should be stated. Although worldwide figures show a rising incidence, mortality rates have been kept stable or low in many western populations. However, this is not the case in many of the Rural Azerbaijan State. It was perceived that breast cancer incidence was low and the parenchyma of Rural Azerbaijan State women difficult to assess mammographically.

Breast cancer screening is a preventive measure in health services in many countries around the world. Underutilization of preventive health services can lead to failure to identify health problems that may be possible for the management and successful treatment and this may lead to a possible disease with significant morbidity and mortality. This inability to provide useful, relevant and timely screening tests for certain types of cancer such as breast cancer will inevitably lead to unhappy diagnosis at later stages of the disease, where not only the rate of successful events below, but also the costs that can be easily seen will be much higher in terms of financial, beauty and sentimental inconvenience for patients and their relatives and friends. It is well known that in developing countries where income is low, being less educated, lack of knowledge about the benefits and prevent serious damage to preventive services, and living at a distance from medical care of all the factors that affect less access to preventive services, such as cancer ...