Pink bus arrives next week: breast cancer info
By Contributor
Since the tour hit the road early May 2011, more than 13,000 people have been through the signature covered bus and more than 650 have signed up on the bus to arrange a mammogram. The Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation, BC/Yukon Region launched BC’s first mammography and breast health education centre on wheels – a branded bus that will visit more than 50 BC communities in less than five months. The Pink Tour Bus Stops Monday, August 29: · 10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. CIBC Grand Forks, 73102 2nd Ave. · 1:00 p.m. – 2 p.m. CIBC Trail, 1298 Bay Ave. The Pink Tour Bus Stops Tuesday, August 30: · 9:30 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Castlegar Safeway, 1721 Columbia St. · 12noon – 1:00 p.m. CIBC Nelson, 459 Baker Street Tour staff guide visitors through the interactive displays and encourage women between 40 and 79 to book a free mammogram in their communities. For the first time, women who register on the bus will receive calls back from the Screening Mammography Program (SMP) of BC to arrange an appointment for their mammogram. Only 51% of eligible women in BC have a regular mammogram. According to the World Health Organization, if 70% of eligible women went for regular mammography, the number of deaths from breast cancer would be reduced by up to one third. The practice of breast health is important to all women. The Pink Tour bus team is as ethnically diverse as the communities they will be visiting throughout BC. All visitors are welcome to tour the bus and read more about breast health in English, Punjabi and Chinese.
Visitors to the bus may sign its exterior as a commitment to adopting breast health practices and booking their free mammogram. Go to www.thepinktour.com to see where and when the Pink Tour will make its way around British Columbia.
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