society’s uncomfortable to talk about women body has made situation even worse, particularly in rural areas due to lack of knowledge, awareness and late diagnosis. A study was conducted by National Cancer Registry Programme in 2020 showing breast cancer was among the five common sites of cancer. About 1 in 28 women are expected to develop breast cancer during their lifetime. By 2030, breast cancer will cause most deaths among women in India than any other malady. In 2020,there were 2.3 million women diagnosed with breast cancer and 685000 death globally. As of the end of 2020, there were 7.8 million women alive who were diagnosed with breast cancer in past 5 years making it world's most prevalent caner. Increase in weight, lack of exercise, hormone replacement therapy, combined oral contraceptive pills, stress, late night shifts, etc are some of the factors that increase the risk of breast cancer. Survival rate is low because detection takes place late. According to World Cancer Report 2020,most efficient intervention for breast cancer is early detection and rapid diagnosis.

Objective: We aimed to assess the knowledge regarding breast cancer and to evaluate the practice of breast self examination among women of rural community in northern India.

Method: This is a descriptive non-experimental research design. A total of 120 Samples were selected using non probability Purposive Sampling technique. After obtaining the permission of higher authority, Institutional ethical committee, data collection procedure was carried out. with a structured validated questionnaire. Data were analysed and interpreted by SPSS version.

Result: The overall knowledge level of women regarding breast cancer, it showed (n=120) 10 (8.3%) women had good knowledge,83(69.16%)) had average knowledge and 27(22.5%) had poor knowledge. The mean value of knowledge score is 9.008 (SD = _+ 1.95.) The overall Practice score of women in rural areas regarding breast self-examination, it showed 16(13.33%) women had good practice, 43(35.83%) had average practice score and 61(50.83%) had poor practice. The mean value and standard deviation of practice score is 4.366 and 1.36. Results proved that the Chi square value was less than the tabulated value at 0.05 level of significance, hence there is no significant association between demographic variables and knowledge scores of women among rural areas regarding breast cancer.