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instruction or training that encourages behaviors most likely to optimize health potentials through information about neoplasms and cancer; facilitates the prevention of cancer, frequently for those who are at risk; also includes instruction or training that increases the awareness and favorably influences the attitudes and knowledge about neoplasms and cancer on a personal or community basis; it also includes the training of medical personnel about cancer for prevention or treatment programs, for this type of cancer education postcoordinate with the appropriate health professional education term; this concept may overlap with CANCER PREVENTION.
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