Men’s Knowledge and Attitudes Towards Breast Cancer: A Descriptive Study

Abstract

Objective: Breast cancer (BC) is an important disease for women. BC influences both patient’s and relatives’ lives. Especially, husbands/boyfriends/lovers are the ones that are affected mostly. In this study, it was aimed to introduce knowledge and attitudes of men toward BC and their sources of information about BC.Materials and Methods: This descriptive study was conducted with men applied to a University Hospital in Istanbul (Turkey-2018). The ethics permission was obtained from The Clinical Research Ethics Committee. Data regarding socio-demographic characteristics with the knowledge and attitudestowards BC were collected with a questionnaire specific to the research. Statistical significance level was accepted as p