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14. Koon KP, Lehman CD, Gralow JR. The importance of survivors and partners in improving breast cancer outcomes in Uganda. Breast Journal 2013;22(2): 138-41
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16. Muthoni A, Miller AN. An exploration of rural and urban Kenyan women’s knowledge and attitudes regarding breast cancer and breast cancer early detection measures. Health Care Women Int. 2010; 31(9): 801-16
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18. Republic of Kenya Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation and Ministry of Medical Services. National Cancer Control Strategy 2011-2016. Available from: http://www.ipcr .net/pdfs/Kenya-National-Cancer-Control-Strategy.pdf
19. Smith RA, Caleffi M, Albert U-S, et al. Breast cancer in Limited Resources Countries: Early Detection and Access to Care. Breast Journal. 2010;12:s16-26
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21. Yip CH et al. (2008). Guideline implementation for breast healthcare in low and middle income countries early detection resource allocation.cancer, 113, 2244-56.
Videos from YouTube, graphics and pictures from Google Image search.
Useful links
2. Anders CK, Hsu DS, Broadwater G, et al. (2008). Young age at diagnosis correlates with worse prognosis and defines a subset of breasts with shared patterns of gene expression. J Clinical Oncology 26:3324-3330
3. Avci IA (2008). Factors associated with breast self- examination practices and beliefs in female workers at Muslim community. Eur J Oncol Nurs 12:127-133
4. Butterfield P (2013). Thinking upstream. Nurturing a conceptual understanding of societal context health behaviour (139-147). In W. K. Cody (Ed) Philosophical and Theoretical Perspectives for Advanced Nursing Practice (5th Ed) . Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Burlington, MA
5. Centres for Diseases Control and Prevention (2015). Breast cancer. Retrieved from http://www.cdc.gov/cancer/breast/
6. Champion V.L., Skinner C.S (2008). The health belief model. health behaviour and health education: Theory, research and practice (4th Ed). 45-65
7. Downing A, Prakash K, Glithorpe MS, Stefoski MJ, Forman D (2007). The effect of socio-economic background on stage at diagnosis, treatment pattern and survival with invasive breast cancer. BMJ cancer 96:837-840
8. El Saghir NS, Adebamowo CA, Anderson BO, Carlson RW, Bird PA, Corbex M, Badwe RA, Bushnaq MA, Eniu A, Gralow JR. Breast cancer management in low resources countries (LRCs): consensus statement from the Breast Health Global Initiative. 2011;20 suppl 2; S3-11.(PubMed)
9. Glanz K, Rimer BK, Viswanath K, (2008). Health behaviour and Health Education: Theory , Research and Practice (4th ed) . SAN Francisco
10. Han H-R., Lee J-E., Kim J., Hedlin H.K.,& Kim M.T., (2009). A meta-analysis of interventions to promote mammography among ethnic minority women. Nursing Research, 58(4), 246-254.
11. Hayes Constant TK, Winkler JL, Bishop A, Taboada Palomino LG. Perilous Uncertainty: Situatiang Women’s Breast – Health Seeking in Northern Peru. Quail Health Rees. 2014
12. Jack RH, Davies EA, Moller H (2009). Breast cancer incidence, stage, treatment and survival in ethnic groups in South East England . BMJ cancer 100:545-550
13. Janz NK, & Becker MH (1984). The Health belief model. A decade later. Health Education & Behaviour. 11(1), 1-47
14. Koon KP, Lehman CD, Gralow JR. The importance of survivors and partners in improving breast cancer outcomes in Uganda. Breast Journal 2013;22(2): 138-41
15. Muchiri M (2006). Factors Influencing Women's Decision for Breast Cancer Screening: A case of Ol-kalou Division, Nyandarua District- Kenya. A seminar paper presented in UICC World Congress 2006 - Washington, D.C.
16. Muthoni A, Miller AN. An exploration of rural and urban Kenyan women’s knowledge and attitudes regarding breast cancer and breast cancer early detection measures. Health Care Women Int. 2010; 31(9): 801-16
17. Mutuma GZ, Korir RA. Cancer incidence report, Nairobi 2000-2006: Nairobi Cancer Registry, 2008.
18. Republic of Kenya Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation and Ministry of Medical Services. National Cancer Control Strategy 2011-2016. Available from: http://www.ipcr .net/pdfs/Kenya-National-Cancer-Control-Strategy.pdf
19. Smith RA, Caleffi M, Albert U-S, et al. Breast cancer in Limited Resources Countries: Early Detection and Access to Care. Breast Journal. 2010;12:s16-26
20. World Health Organisation, International Agency for Research on Cancer . GLOBOCAN 2008. Estimated cancer incidence, mortality, prevalence and disability-adjusted life years ( DALYs) Worldwide in 2008.
21. Yip CH et al. (2008). Guideline implementation for breast healthcare in low and middle income countries early detection resource allocation.cancer, 113, 2244-56.
Videos from YouTube, graphics and pictures from Google Image search.
Useful links