Role of nurse in the breast cancer education

Incidence of female breast cancer in our population remains very high and the incidence increase every year. Breast cancer and following demanding oncological treatment extensively influence life of female patients. It intervene biological, psychical and social life of patient. Objective of our research was to check how women are informed about preventive precautions and how they are following them. Our research sample were randomly selected women of all age groups. Our results showed that it is necessary to increase activity in the area of education, increase personal responsibility in area of breasts self-examination and better inform about the influence of obesity to breast cancer incidence. Considering our previous experience in health care we were surprised that the role of nurse in education process is very low. We think that general nurses have enough opportunities to use daily contacts with patients to inform and lecture them.