Cancer awareness through school curriculum: evidence and recommendations from a quasi-experimental study among school children in the State of Kerala, India

Implementing the cancer awareness study package through classroom teaching improved students' understanding of warning signs and risk factors for cancer. The study emphasised the role of the school as a setting, the school curriculum as a tool and teachers as promoters of cancer prevention education. However, there is no guarantee that this program will work if the learners' environment is not improved through the concurrent teaching of parents. Children learn what they live.