Ajou University Hospital Gyeonggi Regional Cancer Center Holds Job Training on Childhood and Adolescent Cancer Prevention for School Health Teachers

The Ajou University Hospital Gyeonggi Regional Cancer Center (Director Jang Seok-jun) held job training from August 3 to 5 for 29 elementary school health teachers in Gyeonggi Province to raise health teachers' awareness of cancer prevention and to strengthen their capacity for childhood and adolescent cancer prevention education and management in school settings.

This training is job training conducted under the Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education's designation as a specialized-field training institution, and the Gyeonggi Regional Cancer Center conducts cancer prevention education for health teachers in the province every summer vacation.

In particular, the program focuses on forming healthy lifestyle habits from childhood and adolescence to lower the risk of cancer in adulthood, and on enhancing health teachers' expertise and educational capacity so that systematic cancer prevention education can be carried out in school settings.

The training consisted of a total of 13 detailed courses, including △Correct Understanding of Cancer (Professor Choi Yong-won, Hematology-Oncology) △Cancer Prevention Education for Children and Adolescents (Dr. Park Bo-hyun, National Cancer Center) △Understanding Childhood Cancer (Professor Lee Ju-yeon, Pediatrics) △Understanding and Prevention of Cervical Cancer (Professor Kim Ji-yeon, Obstetrics and Gynecology) △Understanding and Prevention of Breast Cancer (Professor Baek Su-yeon, Breast Surgery) and △Climate Crisis and Children: Health Impacts and Health Education (Professor Lim Hyung-ryul, Department of Preventive Medicine).

Jang Seok-jun, director of the Gyeonggi Regional Cancer Center, said, "Since lifestyle habits formed during childhood and adolescence affect health in adulthood, it is important to form correct healthy lifestyle habits from an early age to prevent cancer," adding, "As health teachers play a significant role in closely monitoring and educating students on their health, we will continue to provide diverse education so that cancer prevention education can be actively carried out in school settings going forward."