DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2018.v06i05.049

Pages: 2121-2126

Breast cancer appears to be a disease of both the developing and developed worlds. The primary goal of this study was to assess the Moroccan medical students’ knowledge and attitude of breast cancer. This was a cross-sectional study carried out on post graduate students at faculty of medicine of Fez-Morocco. The knowledge was assessed using 26 true-false items. A score ranging from 0 to 26 was calculated by weighting each item 1 point. Then the score was dichotomized according to the threshold 13 (50% correct answers). The study included 400 students from the faculty of medicine of Fez-Morocco. A proportion of 67.4% (221) of our study population had a good score. In our study 285(87.7%) of medical students think that Self-Breast Examination is important for breast cancer early detection. In this study, 275 (84.4%) of our study population estimates that breast cancer is a public health problem in Morocco but only 42 (12.9%) have respond correctly about the incidence of cancer in Morocco.