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Certificate of Achievement
has completed the following course:
Talking About Cancer: Reducing Risk, Early Detection and Myth-busting
Cancer Research UK
Talking About Cancer explored the knowledge, tips and tools needed to encourage simple, effective conversations about cancer. Lead by Cancer Research UK’s experienced trainers, participants learned about cancer myths and facts, cancer prevention and the importance of visiting the doctor early. The course also looked at the barriers that can prevent people from making positive changes, and how to overcome them.
3 weeks, 1 hour per week
Gillian Kilgour
Lead Cancer Awareness Trainer
Cancer Research UK
Gwen Kaplan
Lead Cancer Awareness Trainer
Cancer Research UK
Transcript
Learning outcomes
- Summarise simple, reliable facts about cancer, prevention, early diagnosis and cancer screening.
- Engage those around you in effective conversations about cancer.
- Identify appropriate sources of support and information about cancer, and signpost people to them.
- Assess the barriers that can prevent people from taking positive action for their health or visiting the doctor, and engage them in a way that encourages them to take action.
- Develop a plan of action to help you talk about cancer.
Syllabus
- Key facts and health messages about cancer prevention, the national cancer screening programmes and the importance of early diagnosis.
- How to talk about cancer and have conversations with others to help them take positive action.
- Identification of people’s possible barriers to making positive changes for their health or seeing a doctor.
- Communication methods that can help people overcome these barriers and avoid defensiveness and fear.
- Identifying how our own feelings can affect how we approach conversations.
- How to signpost people to the right places for cancer advice and support.
- Creating an action plan so that you can feel confident when talking about cancer.
Issued on 3rd October 2022
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