Factors that cause Late Detection of Breast and Cervical Cancer among Women in Zambia: An Inestigative Cross-sectional Study conducted at The Cancer Diseases Hospital
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2021
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INTRODUCTION: Malignant growth is without a doubt one of the most widely recognized happening and driving non-transferable sicknesses. It dates as far back as 3000 BC when the primary malignant growth like illness was first announced in antiquated Egypt. In the year 2020, it was accounted for by the World Health Organization that an expected number of 2.3 million ladies were determined to have bosom disease and 685,000 deaths were accounted for universally. As of the year's end 2020, there were 7.8 million ladies alive who were determined to have bosom disease in the beyond 5 years, making it the most pervasive malignant growth. Worldwide, cervical disease is the fourth most successive malignant growth in ladies with a gauge of 570,000 new cases in 2018 representing 7.5 percent of all female disease deaths. On a worldwide scale, Zambia is assessed to have the second most elevated disease rates on the planet. This is credited to unfortunate admittance to screening administrations, portrayed by high death paces of cervical malignant growth at 58.0 and 36.2 per 100,000 ladies, separately. Thus, bosom and cervical disease has turned into a worldwide weight and one of the main sources of deaths among ladies in the Sub-Saharan Africa.
METHODS: This study employed the qualitative approach method and used an investigative cross sectional study design to analyze a data saturation sample of 33 respondents. The respondents were selected through a purposive sampling procedure of data saturation method, the data was collected through interview using an interview guide and the data was analyzed using thematic analysis table.
RESULTS: In this study, it was found that low levels of awareness and knowledge was the leading cause of late detection of cervical cancer and cancer of the breast among women in Zambia as the majority of the participants stated that they had little or knowledge on breast and/or cervical cancer. Source of information to be a contributing factor to women presenting with late presentation of cancer. In addition, it was also found from the majority that the perception and alternative medical preference by women are among the contributing factors causing women to present with late staged cancer when they go to the health facilities.
CONCLUSION: In general, the inadequacy of knowledge and low awareness, cultural factors, socio economic status among others have continued to be important measures to determining the late detection of both cervical and breast cancer.
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