Possibilities to improve breast cancer screening

Abstract

The paper considers the urgent problems of improving a breast cancer (BC) screening program, which are concerned with the motivation to be formed in a female population for actively seeking medical advice and for being regularly examined by specialists. The priorities of specialists’ popularizing work on female orientation in the problem of BC are formulated. The role and place of procedures for doing breast self-examina- tion are described. A screening has been in a large population sample in two Moscow companies.