Results: The female high school students had insufficient knowledge about breast self-examination
and a low percentage of students reported that they had performed breast self examination
monthly. The most common reason for not doing breast self- examination was "not knowing how
to perform breast self-examination" (98.5%). Most of the students had little knowledge of the risk
factors for breast cancer. The most widely known risk factor by the students was personal history
of breast cancer (68.7%). There was a significant relation between breast self-examination practice
and age, school grade, knowledge about breast cancer and knowledge about breast selfexamination.