Breast Cancer Prevention Knowledge and Attitudes
Table 1 describes the means, standard deviations, and ranges for levels of breast cancer risk factor knowledge and breast self-awareness. The breast cancer risk factor knowledge mean score was 6.14 (SD = 1.72) for the 9-item section. College women had very good knowledge levels about non-modifiable risk factors such as family history (95 %) and increased breast cancer risk with age (90 %). They had lower knowledge levels for non-modifiable risk factors such as beginning periods early before