From: Cancer awareness among community pharmacist: a systematic review
Lead author | Year | Country | Sample description | Type of cancer | Duration of Study | Study design | Sample size | Conclusion |
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Ibrahim | 2013 | UAE | Community pharmacies | Breast | 24Â weeks | Cross sectional survey | 335 | Community Pharmacists have low level of knowledge in breast cancer. Efforts should be made on providing pharmacists with high quality Breast cancer continuous education. |
Beshir | 2012 | Malaysia | Independent community pharmacies | Breast | 20Â weeks | Cross sectional survey | 35 | Community pharmacists have low breast cancer knowledge which can prevent actualisation of pharmacist role in breast cancer education. Therefore further work should focus on providing pharmacists with high quality breast cancer continuous education. |
EL Hajj | 2011 | Qatar | Community pharmacies | Breast | 12Â weeks | Descriptive cross sectional survey | 195 | Low breast cancer knowledge was recorded among community pharmacists. Further work should focus on providing pharmacists with breast cancer continuous education. |
Ayoub | 2016 | Jordan | Commercial community pharmacies | Breast | 20Â weeks | Descriptive cross sectional survey | 1113 | There is knowledge gap pertaining to breast cancer and screening guidelines. Pharmacist must improve their knowledge through better undergraduate oncology education and intensive continuous education programmes |