Hubungan Pengetahuan Tentang Kanker Payudara Dengan Cara Periksa Payudara Sendiri Pada Mahasiswi Semester IV Program Studi Ilmu Keperawatan Fakultas Kedokteran Universitas Sam Ratulangi

: Knowledge of women about the risks and benefits of early detection of breast cancer positively affect their health beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors so that health care professionals can develop effective breast health programs. InIndonesian,foundmorethan80% of casesareat an advanced stage, so thattreatment effortsachieve a curedifficult. One of theearly detectionof breastcancerisbreast self-examinationbehavior(BSE). The purpose of the study was to determine the correlation between the knowledge about breast cancer with breast self-examination method. This research uses an analytic descriptive study design cross sectional approach. The sampling technique is total sampling with a number for research subjects consisted of 64 female college student grade IV from Nursing program science. Measuring instrument used are questionnaires and statistical analysis used was chi square with the aid of the computer program SPSS. The results of the 64 respondents indicate that there were 37 people (57,8%) had a high knowledge about breast cancer and 27 people (42,2%) had low knowledge level, while there were 33 people (51,6%) had good BSE method, and 31 people (48,4%) had an favorable BSE method. The statistical result is p = 0,96 (α = 0,05). In conclusion there is no relationship between knowledge of breast cancer with breast self-examination method. Expected of the research to be developed in a way related to the effect of BSE method toward incidence of breast cancer