The breastfeeding and Breast Cancer though closely inter linked, the knowledge about the beneficial effect of breastfeeding is not widely spoken amongst people and its uncommon among other risk factors which get more importance in comparison with breastfeeding. The objective of this study is to assess the knowledge and attitude of breast cancer patients regarding breastfeeding. The hospital based descriptive cum evaluatory study was conducted in Regional Cancer Centre located in Uttar Pradesh State of India with women aged 20-80 years. Respondents were breast cancer patients attending the OPD for treatment. A total of 220 samples were taken purposively from Prayagraj district in UP. In this analysis we assessed how women’s knowledge and attitude about risk factors of breast cancer with respect to age, education, occupation and location .Knowledge and Attitude were assessed using multinomial logistic regression. Women who had completed higher-secondary school were about six-and-a-half times more likely to reach the High knowledge band than illiterate women (OR ≈ 6.6, p = 0.002). Each additional year of age reduced the chance of landing in the highest knowledge band by about 30 % (OR ≈ 0.71, p = 0.032). Any apparent rural–urban gap disappeared after adjusting for education, age and occupation. This analysis showed that education is the single strongest influence knowledge regarding breast cancer among women in the sample
