Farzaneh Taghaee - Instructor, Faculty of Nursing, Aja University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
Effat Afaghi - Instructor, Faculty of Nursing, Aja University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

Breast cancer is the third most commoncancer in the world and the mostcommon cancer in women. Earlydetection of the disease helps to controland successfully treat it. Althoughmammography is the gold standard forscreening for breast cancer, most peoplerefuse to do it. For this reason, thisarticle aims to identify some of thebarriers to breast cancer mammographyscreening in women.This article is a review of a regularinternet search of reputable databasesbetween ۲۰۱۲ and ۲۰۲۲ and libraryresources with the keywords screening,mammography, breast cancer andbarriers.

Screening, mammography, breastcancer, barriers