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  • Breast cancer is the second largest cause of death on woman after cervical cancer and is the most infected cancer on woman. The high of mortality rate on breast cancer is caused by the patients who consulting at health service center have been infected up to advanced stage or could not be healed. Infact, early check up toward breast cancer symptomps could be conducted by ourselves and free charge. This reseach aims to find out the effect of health education on breast cancer toward posyandu officers’ (kader) behavior and knowledge in conducting sadari (Self-checking on breast). The method used in this research is pre-experiment method with one group pretest-posttest design. This research used simple random sampling. The researcher uses 30 women at posyandu, desa makamhaji. The treatment on this research is socialize the health education by giving speech and providing questionnaire as the instrument. The result of this research shows that the behavior and knowledge of posyandu officers have increased after health education being given. Based on the analized data, the score of each behavior and knowledge shows p-value is 0,001 which p<0,05, thus Ho is rejected and Ha is accepted. This research concludes that there is an effect between health education on breast cancer and the posyandu officers’ behavior and knowledge in conducting sadari at posyandu, Desa Makamhaji. Keywords: health education, attitude, knowledge, breast cancer, BSE