Background:

breast cancer represents a global health problem due to its high incidence; at present this is the most frequent type of cancer in women.

Objective:

to develop an educational program on breast cancer aimed at the women of the Doctor´Office 028-2, of the "50th Anniversary" Teaching Polyclinic, in Manicaragua.

Methods:

a pre-experimental study of educational intervention was developed, evaluated by specialists, in the Medical Office 028-2, of the "50 Aniversario" Teaching Polyclinic of the Manicaragua municipality, from January 2021 to January 2022. Theoretical methods were used: analysis-synthesis, inductive -deductive and historical-logical; Empirical ones: documentary, survey and mathematical-statistical for the analysis of the investigated data.

Results:

the ages of 45 to 54 years predominated, the majority had no past medical history and their knowledge on how to prevent the disease was insufficient, for which an educational program was designed, which was assessed by specialist criteria.

Conclusions:

after being evaluated as adequate, it was applied with very good results among the females; the need to intensify the educational work of the physician and other personnel involved in caring for women is alerted so that they develop awareness of the importance of early detection of this neoplasm.

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