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Background: Poor control of cancer pain is a major public health problem worldwide. Many potential barriers can lead to suboptimal treatment of cancer pain. One such barrier is inadequate measurement and assessment of cancer-related pain control.

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Breast Cancer Awareness and Barriers to Early Presentation in the Gaza-Strip: A Cross-Sectional Study.

J Glob Oncol

October 2018

Mohamedraed Elshami, Reem Dabbour, Tayseer Hasan, Esraa Saleh, and Haifa Shawwa, Ministry of Health; Hanan Abu Kmeil, Maymona Abu-Jazar, Ibtisam Mahfouz, Dina Ashour, Ansam Aljamal, Nada Mohareb, Reem Elbalaawi, Meral Abdelati, Reem Al-Ghazali, and Bettina Böttcher, Islamic University of Gaza School of Medicine; Jomana Ghaith, Alazhar University School of Medicine, Gaza, Palestine; and Loai Albarqouni, Centre for Research in Evidence-Based Practice, Bond University, Australia.

Purpose: Timely detection of breast cancer (BC) is important to reduce its related deaths. Hence, high awareness of its symptoms and risk factors is required. This study aimed to assess the awareness level of BC among females in Gaza.

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