Awareness Levels about Breast Cancer Risk Factors, Early Warning Signs, and Screening and Therapeutic Approaches among Iranian Adult Women: A large Population Based Study Using Latent Class Analysis

Table 1

Class-specific level of correct awareness (%) about the breast cancer screening approaches.

Screening approaches	Class 1; (high awareness)		Class 2; (mixed awareness)		Class 3; (poor awareness)
	Yes	No	Yes	No	Yes	No
Biopsy	54.15	45.85	0.12	99.88	0.97	99.03
Sonography or CT scan	59.94	40.06	17.37	82.63	0.10	99.9
Mammography	87.63	12.37	47.14	52.86	4.76	95.24
Breast self-examination monthly	83.86	16.14	83.58	16.42	4.08	95.92
Breast examination biannually by a physician	90.32	09.68	76.70	23.30	5.60	94.40
Class size	33.2%		31.9%		34.9%