Breast self-examination (BSE) is one of the interventions to detect the breast cancer (BC) earlier. Nowadays, BSE didn’t known by the many adolescent and young women, so that it is needed to do promotive effort to increase their knowledge about BSE. This was a cross sectional study of 100 female nursing students that were selected by cluster sampling technique, data was collected using self-administered questionnaires and analysis done using SPSS Version 19.The level of awareness of breast cancer and BSE was high among the respondents; 98% of surveyed girls had heard about BC, but only few had limited knowledge The breast feeding and breast self-examination reported as a methods of prevention breast cancer. Breast lump was a well-known symptom of breast cancer. 57% of the respondents knew the correct time BSE should be done, minority of the participants had a good knowledge of BSE, the practice of BSE was poor, only 34% of them carried it out monthly; more than half of the respondents 52% said they will seek help immediately if they observed breast lump.

Keywords: Breast cancer, Breast self-examination, Undergraduate Nursing Students, Arar.

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Ms. Deepa Jothirajan

Lecturer of Obstetric and Gynaecological Nursing, Faculty of Nursing, Northern Border University, KSA