Talking About Cancer: Reducing Risk, Early Detection and Mythbusting

Provides tips, tools and confidence to have meaningful conversations about cancer. Raises awareness of key facts and health messages about cancer prevention, screening and early diagnosis. Gain the ability to deal with barriers and challenges you may face when having cancer conversations. Know how to direct people to the right place for advice and support and encourage practical action.

• Target Audience: All
• Level: Introductory
• Type of Learning: E-learning
• Provider: FutureLearn
• Time to Complete: 3 hours over 3 weeks
• Link: Talking about Cancer and Cancer Prevention – Course – FutureLearn

Cancer Prevention

Learn how lifestyle affects cancer risk and receive useful and practical tips for cancer prevention, based on the latest scientific evidence. Gain confidence in talking about cancer prevention to patients and clients using approved behaviour change techniques. Debunk common cancer myths. Help people to live well during cancer.

• Target Audience: All
• Level: Essential
• Type of Learning: E-learning
• Provider: World Cancer Research Fund
• Link: Online cancer prevention course for health professionals | WCRF (wcrf-uk.org)

Breast Cancer Primary Prevention Education

You will learn strategies for lifestyle interventions for the prevention of breast cancer as well as being able to identify which drugs are used in the prevention of breast cancer for pre- and postmenopausal women. Understand the NICE guidelines for eligibility to receive treatment and the anticipated risk reduction with each drug as well as being able to describe the principle side-effects of each of these drugs.

• Target Audience: Breast cancer specific
• Type of Learning: E-learning
• Provider: E-Learning for Health
• Link: – e-Learning for Healthcare Authentication (learninghub.nhs.uk)

Behaviour Change and cancer prevention

This module is aimed at healthcare professionals who would like to promote behaviour change in their patients to reduce their cancer risk. The module will highlight the links between cancer and smoking, obesity and alcohol and describe the evidence for Very Brief Advice (VBA) on behaviour change.

• Type of Learning: E-learning
• Provider: RCGP
• Time to Complete: 30 minutes
• Link: https://elearning.rcgp.org.uk/course/info.php?id=211

Supporting people to reduce their risk of cancer: prevention, screening and symptom awareness

If you work in health or social care and are interested in reducing people’s risk of developing cancer, helping people act on early signs of cancer or supporting people living with cancer to optimise their health and wellbeing then these webinars are for you.

Social Prescribers, Health & Wellbeing Coaches, Care Co-ordinators, exercise instructors, rehab assistants

• Target Audience: See above
• Level: Essential
• Type of Learning: Recorded webinar
• Provider: Wessex Cancer Alliance
• Time to Complete: 1 hour
• Link: Cancer and the wider workforce webinar series – Welcome to Wessex Cancer Alliance

Very Brief Advice on Smoking (VBA+)

This short film demonstrates how simple brief interventions to change smoking behaviour can be. Please watch this film as it powerfully demonstrates the capacity and effectiveness of Very Brief Advice on Smoking (VBA+) to change lives.

• Type of Learning: Video
• Provider: NCSCT
• Time to Complete: 5 minutes
• Link: https://elearning.ncsct.co.uk/vba-stage_1

Very Brief Advice (VBA) for Smoking Cessation

This short (15 minutes) and downloadable podcast for healthcare professionals highlights the importance of smoking cessation for patients and how to use ‘Very Brief Advice’ (VBA) in a consultation

• Type of Learning: Podcast
• Provider: Wessex Cancer Alliance
• Time to Complete: 15 minutes
• Link: https://wessexlmcs.podbean.com/e/very-brief-advice-vba-for-smoking-cessation/

Awareness and Prevention – Cancer Research UK
Supporting you to raise awareness of cancer within your community through our awareness and prevention tools and resources. Access support and training to help you talk confidently about cancer, see the different ways we are working to raise awareness of signs and symptoms of cancer and discover information to help you have informed discussions with your patients

CRUK preventable cancers infographic
4 in 10 cancer cases in the UK can be prevented. This infographic shows what factors can increase your risk of cancer, and what you can do to reduce your risk