Programme 1: Testicular Cancer

Activities

Suggestions for Using the Programme in the Classroom

Before viewing

Explain to pupils that they are going to see a programme about testicular cancer. Try to build up a picture of what they already know by asking the following questions:

• What is testicular cancer?
  
• Have you heard anything in the news about it?
• Do you know what some of the concerns are about it?
• Do you know anything about the treatment for it?
• Is there anything men can do about it?
• Is there anything women can do about it?

After viewing

Ask pupils to identify any gaps in their knowledge and discuss the programme.

• How did they feel about what they saw?
• Why do they think men might have difficulty facing up to something like this?
• Could men and women do anything to improve the situation?
• What are the key messages pupils have taken from watching the programme?
• What concerns might people have about a screening process that involves self-examination? How could some of these concerns be addressed?
• Discuss in what ways women examining their breasts and men examining their testicles could be considered similar, and in what ways different.