34 www.banglajol.info/index.php/JSF Journal of Science Foundation January 2019, Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 34-39 ISSN (Print) 1728-7855 DOI: https://doi.org/10.3329/jsf.v17i1.44865 Original Article Knowledge about Breast Cancer among the Nursing Students at a Teaching Institute in Dhaka City Negar Fouzia 1 , Umma Taj Lovely 2 , Shimul Akter 3 , Md. Abdullah Yusuf 4 , Eliza Omar Eva 5 Abstract Background: Breast cancer is a life threatening illness. Therefore the knowledge and awareness among the nursing students is a crucial issue. Objective: The purpose of the present study was to assess the level of knowledge on breast cancer among graduate nursing students. Methodology: This study was designed as descriptive type of cross sectional type study. This study was carried out in the Department of Public Health at North South University, Dhaka, Bangladesh. This study was conducted from April 2017 to September 2017 for a period of six (06) months. All girls nursing student at any age who were studied in the Pallabi Nursing Institute, Mirpur, Dhaka were selected as study population. The students were voluntarily included in the study with their consent and they were neither supported nor additionally burdened financially. A structured Likert scale questionnaire was provided for collection necessary data and was incorporated items from both dependent and independent variables. Questionnaire was designed both in English for the respondents. Result: A total number of 300 nursing students were recruited for this study. Poor knowledge was found in majority of the study population which was 285(95.0%) respondents and the rest 15(5.0%) had good knowledge. Conclusion: In conclusion the nursing students have poor knowledge and awareness about the prevention of breast cancer. [Journal of Science Foundation 2019;17(1):34-39] [Reviewed: 3 October 2018; Accepted on: 1 November 2018; Published on: 1 January 2019] Introduction Breast cancer is the most common female cancer worldwide representing nearly a quarter (23%) of all cancers in women (Parkin et al., 2005). The global burden of breast cancer is expected to cross 2 million by the year 2030, with growing proportions from developing countries (Fry and Prentice-Dunn 2006). Globally, 1 Senior Lecturer, SPKS Nursing Institute, Dhaka, Bangladesh 2 Assistant Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Shahabuddin Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh 3 Assistant Professor, Department of Gynaecology & Obstetrics, Monowara Sikder Medical College, Sharitpur, Bangladesh 4 Assistant Professor, Department of Microbiology, National Institute of Neurosciences & Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh 5 Professor, Department of Pharmacology, Shaheed Suhrawardy Medical College, Dhaka, Bangladesh Correspondence: Dr. Negar Fouzia, Senior Lecturer, SPKS Nursing Institute, Dhaka, Bangladesh; Email: negarfouzia@gmail.com; Cell no.: +8801712101747 Copyright: ©2019. Fouzia et al. Published by Journal of Science Foundation. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International CC BY-NC License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). This license permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and is not used for commercial purposes