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Knowledge, Attitude, Behaviour and Breast Cancer Screening Practices in Developing Countries: A Case Study for Ghana, West Africa

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many factors the rate of increase in developing countries is accelerating with women appearing to take a lower priority than man, leading to cancer such as breast cancer being under  funded and lacking the urgency for screening and treatment seen in many western countries. It cannot be ignored that some issues concerning the way cancer is viewed are cultural, however,  this cannot be used an excuse. In this paper we will look at the knowledge, attitude and behaviour concerning breast screening practices in developing countries and apply these to Ghana.  It is estimated that by the year 2020 the incidence rate and mortality rate will double, and that the majority of the cases of cancer, up to 70%, will  occur in the developing county. The attitudes in the developed and the developing nations, such as Ghana, are divergent. In the developed world there is acceptance that curative treatment is  essential, requiring early detection (Jones, 1999, Greene et al, 2005? Coughlin, 2005). In the developed countries this has received a priority in order to treat cancer early to obtain the  best possible prognosis. In the developing world the lack of detention programmes and resources mean that 80% of cancers that are detected are already in the later incurable stages  (Jones, 1999). There are many arguments regarding issues such the ethical responsibility of healthcare professionals to help prevent suffering, but even where cancer is detected in a developing country  there is a lack of palliative care (Jones, 1995, 1999). The difficulty is in considering how far the ethical duty stretches. If we look at the Universal Declaration of Human  Rights under Article 27 it states; "Everyone has the right ... to share in scientific advancement and its benefit" (United Nations, 1948), this can be argued clearly as putting cancer