Evaluation of universities professors on oral cancer prevention

Objective: to identify to the main knowledge on factors of related risk and protection to the cancer of mouth between universities professors. Method: this is a descriptive study, from transversal approach, using a questionnaire for data collect. The sample was composed by 50 professors of the areas of sciences human beings, accurate and biological, in Brasilia/DF city, who were acting in the units searched in the nocturnal period, of August to the September of 2008, and that had agreed to participate in this study. The programs NSEXCEL and SPSS were use to analyze the results. The project was approved by the Research Ethics Committee of the University Center UNIEURO, protocol number 038/2008, and abode by the provisions in Resolution 196/96. Results: it was observed that 80% had answered which correctly the related clinical manifestations to the mouth cancer, but the tobacco (90%) and the feeding had considered as risk factors only (10%). Conclusions: notice that even so the knowledge is satisfactory (68%) the life habits don ́t consistent with the information level that was gotten. Descriptors: mouth neoplasms; disease prevention; early diagnosis; knowledge; medical oncology; oncologic nursing; dentistry.