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Education helps students and teachers to aware about Breast Cancer and other cancer diseases to be informed and take care of family, but also of their own lives.
Let us all, teachers and students, take part in October’s Breast Cancer Awareness campaign to increase awareness about the disease.
💗Theme 2022:
“Be the heroine of your life”.
On this occasion, Pink Ribbon Foundation inaugurated its awareness campaign organized all throughout October, with the theme of “heroines”, accompanied by its powerful message: “Be the heroine of your life”.
National Breast Cancer Foundation
- Education:
Every year an new opportunity to draw attention from our students. Girls and boys are growing up faster and need to be aware that it is out there and early detection is the best cure and hope of getting through this awful thing.
😪Let me remind you, the leading cause of death for children under the age of 15:
"In developing countries, over 100,000 children die each year due to poor diagnoses and lack of access to basic treatment options. If given the generic drugs and simple medical procedures so desperately needed it is estimated that more than half of them could be saved. Instead, survival rates stand at 20 percent."
Most cancer awareness programs traditionally target adults and populations considered to be at risk for developing cancer. Consequently, little attention has been given to educating younger populations about cancer. To address this gap in childhood education.
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Unfortunaly, as educators, we all have known in school some children and young people who have or had cancer or often coexist with cancer because they have brothers or sisters, sometimes mothers or grandmothers suffering with this disease.
University of Southern California’s (USC)
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“I'm dream of the day when every child can be promised a cure."
Jessica
Schools must holding special programs to tell students about how survival rates increases through an early detection.
I think it would be very important to include cancer awareness into every school curriculum, not only in sciences curriculum.
I know several schools that involve young students to raise awareness about this disease. I did every year.
“Education helps students and teachers not only protect their families, but also their own lives”
Resources:
- A film about children cancer
From different books and films that I've already suggest in different publications. Here another film about cancer at young age. The Healer by Paco Arango, 2017.
Pink October is about breast cancer. I know! It's the main theme. But why not to talk about cancer in general and children cancer awareness?! I know there is the Child Cancer Awareness Month in September. But the theme is not include into school curricula.
- The Healer
A young man suddenly discovers he has the gift of healing. Trying to understand it and the new reality it offers, a teenage girl with terminal cancer unexpectedly shows him the way.
It's funny and inspiring movie at the same time. Truly loved it! May teachers include it and explore it into their lessons. You have the time. And students will understand the feeling of a young lady who have cancer.
This movie is actually very personal and bittersweet for me. The character of Abigail was based on a dear friend of mine, a student, who died of cancer. So for me it’s somewhat surreal that I see someone portraying a character based on her, and yet many of the people who watch the movie were not as blessed as I was to have the feeling of being her teacher and friend for several years until she was taken from us so young by complications from cancer at a tender age.
Some notes:
Teachers can teach students that many diseases, including some types of cancer, can be prevented through healthy lifestyle habits, such as eating well and maintaining a moderate level of regular physical activity.
That can be presented through a series of games and activities that advocated eating well as part of a balanced lifestyle.
“Prevention is better than a cure.”
Louis Pasteur
G-Souto
24.10.2022
update 24.10.2023
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