Pain during breast cancer screening
Level of agreement Respondents Percentage
Strongly agree 20 16.7
Agree 67 55.8
neutral 26 21.7
Disagree 0 0.0
Strongly disagree 7 5.8
From the result, majority of women, more than 70%, believe that breast cancer
screening is painful. From the result, a mean of 4.1522 and a standard deviation of
1.42196 were obtained signifying majority of market women believed that breast
cancer treatment is painful.
No respondent strongly agreed that a woman will die within a short period of time
once diagnosed with breast cancer, 16.67% agreed, 10.83 were neutral, 66.67%
disagreed and only 5% strongly disagreed as shown in Table 4.11 below.
Table: Breast cancer survival rate
Level of agreement Respondents Percentage
Strongly agree 0 0.0
Agree 20 16.7
neutral 13 10.8
Disagree 80 66.7
Strongly disagree 7 5.8
From the results above, majority of the respondents, more than 70%, believe that a
woman will not die within a short period of time once diagnosed with breast
cancer. A mean of 3.2391 and a standard deviation of 1.76567 were obtained from
the results signifying a positive agreement that a woman can live longer with breast
cancer. The finding of the study confirms the study done by Barbara et al, (2005)
that compared perception of cancer fatalism among African-American patients and
their providers who found that patients indicated low perception of cancer fatalism,
but providers believed patients were highly fatalistic.
Table: Mean and standard deviation of perception and the acceptance of
breast cancer screening
Mean Standard
deviation
A. Breast cancer only affects old women aged 40 years
and above
4.9 .8
B. Breast cancer is more common in women with a
positive family history of breast cancer
4.1 1.4
C. Breast cancer can only develops in women with formal
employment
4.5 1.1
D. Breast cancer treatment is painful and expensive 4.2 1.4
E. A woman will die within a short period of time once
diagnosed with breast cancer
3.2 1.8
