Abstract
Background: Colorectal cancer (CRC) is considered as a significant worldwide health problem1 and there is strong suggestion that screening can reduce CRC mortality rate. Thus, the effectiveness of awareness toward screening may be encouraged screening performance and screening intensity to those at highest risk. Aim: to find out community awareness regarding risk prediction of colorectal cancer at port-said city , Egypt. Subject and methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was carried out using A purposive sampling on 220 female from age more than 20 year at outpatient clinics from governmental hospitals (Alsalam general , Port-fouad general hospital Algawhara hospital at Port-Said city, Egypt responded to the self-administered online survey. Statistical tools such as frequency, percentage, were used for the descriptive analysis. Results: there are a statistically significant relation was found in all items of participant's attitude regarding colorectal cancer with ps= (0.001, 0.012) respectively. Furthermore, there are a statistically significant relation was found between participant’s intentions to be screened for colorectal cancer with their socio-demographic characteristics mainly in the items related to level of education and their occupation with ps= (0.015, 0.005) respectively.
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