An Analytic Research on Children’s Beliefs About Facts of Cancer

Author(s): K. C. Raja Shree* and Priyadharshini. V

Abstract: The information and edification are inputs to cancer deterrence. This must be accompanied with premature finding and apposite judgment about treatment alternatives. It is believed that cancer is a chief cause of fatality worldwide. It reports for 7.4 million deaths on a deliberation universally. Cancer habitually generates fear which is due to lack of knowledge and false impression. About 30% of cancer ailments could be expelled by altering lifestyle and evading key risk causes. On an account of 1/3rd cancer could be abridged if detected and treated at an early phase. This study presents information about the familiarity among children towards cancer, initial investigations, treatments indulged and prevention strategies. This study is unique as it acknowledges health particulars amongst School children study. According to this study, it is obvious that children are to a certain extent aware about their causes and reasons behind cancer.

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