B.C. Cancer’s fleet of mobile mammography coaches will visit Chetwynd from July 30 to August 2 to screen eligible residents in the rural community.
The provincial cancer service has three coaches equipped with a private dressing room and examination room for patients to be screened using the state-of-the-art equipment – for people in wheelchairs, the vehicles also have lifts.
“The mobile mammography service performs about 10 per cent of the total number of screening mammograms in B.C,” said B.C. Cancer, whose coaches travel to more than 40 First Nations communities and over 100 rural areas, providing these free screenings.
Eligible residents would have received a letter from B.C. Cancer with a booking code to schedule an appointment at the reservation-only mobile clinic, or they can visit the organization’s website or call them.
Typically, the examination is recommended bi-annually for women over 40, though people with a family history of breast cancer may be encouraged to get screened younger or more frequently.
Patients are asked to arrive at the mobile clinic, which will be located at the Chetwynd Hospital and Health Centre, no sooner than five minutes early, and to knock on the van door at the time of their appointment to check in at the van’s reception area.
