The incidence of cancer will increase by 2040 worldwide. For this reason, prevention is essential. Health education in university settings constitutes a powerful tool that allows people to develop healthy behaviors in all spheres of life. This need has become more evident since the pandemic originated by COVID-19. The Jakarta Declaration indicates that the educational field is essential to health promotion. This university training should address the complexity of this disease for society and the importance of incorporating healthy behaviors into our behavioral repertoire, as a preventive strategy. To achieve this, an interdisciplinary approach must be adopted. It ensures a comprehensive understanding of the disease and its environmental, medical, psychological, nutritional, and social aspects. This holistic approach could result in significant improvements in the quality of life of people and cancer patients during their treatment and recovery.

Health education from a biopsychosocial perspective is essential, since it integrates biological, psychological, and social factors involved in healthy behaviors and in the understanding and management of health and disease. Health education is integrated, for example, in the warly childhood wducation curriculum, but teachers could fail to develop it effectively.

The aim of this paper is to provide a proposal for health education university settings which is not only focused on the absence of disease but encompasses a holistic approach to health that includes physical, mental, and social well-being, It seeks that students acquire knowledge and skills that allow them to make informed decisions about their health and their environment. It could lead to notable changes in undergraduates students’ cancer knowledge, fear and fatalism, and risk behaviors.

This proposal for health education from a biopsychosocial perspective, allows future cancer patients to find a trained university professional team from different disciplines, sensitive, and attentive to care from different areas, prepared individually, family and community, It will be done on the premise that health education not only improves the understanding of the disease, but also promotes a more effective and holistic management of well-being by encouraging the promotion of healthy habits.

Keywords: University education, health promotion, prevention, cancer, interdisciplinary.