Health Highlights EALTHY PEOPLE | HEALTHY FAMILIES HEALTHY COMMUNITIES It's Breast Cancer Awareness Lindsoy Wilde, Regional Screening Services Promoter, to find, engage with and bring these month - and Hutt Valley DHB wants your help to save lives. screening programme, there Breast concer is the most common concer are many who put it off affecting New Zealand women. Regula mammograms with BreostScreen Centrol can to screening." she soys. "For ind breast cancer early, leading to effective women there ore more Manoger at Hutt Valley DHB says while most women into screening women in the Hutt Valley enrol in the breastSupport people are welcome, we can provide tronsport if needed- I have even looked ofter elders or mokopuna In the 24 months to June We wont to get these women 2018, 16,817 women aged to mahe the system accessible. in the Hutt Valley With your help and horero, we important things in life than a representing breost screening appointment, the eligible population espcially when they con't imogine getting breost cancer. of these screenings Con c reh even more women. Let Breast Cancer Awareness month By encouroging someone you love to make a breast screening oppoint play your part. We're fortunate to have o clinic right next to Hutt Hospitol, mammograms every two years to women oppointment, ment, uou can One hundred and twobe the time for action. ol offering free Can't see it, can't feel it, don't identifed breast caneer. Phone BreastScreen Aotearoa 0800 270 200 It's the role of Te Rangi Winitono, o Heath "It's a free service. Take advantage of it." tt valley 12.30pm, 25 October 2018 at the Board Room, Pimuir House. Hutt Hospital Compus, Lower Hutt more dotes and infomation Toi Teuira, oge 49, Noenoe Tai's work-a cleoner worling ot night-meant sure now rother thon loter. Take your girls and get knew that I was eligible for free screening, but I letters, but it's better to get checked and lknow for Jenny Bridgen, age 46, Lyal Bay hod no fomily history of breast cancer, so I didnt oppoinements. So she mode her third oppointment Rou Sprrow, age 66, Upper Hut immediately. Eventuolly T did coll and hod my partof aolective first mammogiam ot the mobile breastscreening The first screening I had I was quite nervous My of social workers. She ond her colleagues play an sster in low had been for a mommogrm and told important role in encouraging women to look after was nervous es d heard from other people that it me: they're going to pop your girls (breosts] on therhalth so they're well enough to core for their cld be uncomfortable. And it wos uncomfortable that plate ond squeeze them and it's sooo soe hanau But I thought this is to do with my body, so wont In Moorí culture your body is topu -it's taken to go through it myself-I'm a tough cookie. The Rodiographer just said move this way, odrust this.. it was uncomfortoble, but I thought it wosn't too not something thot you'd want to do for fun. After thot first appointment, they told me it wos quite libely that I would receive a call back to the Hutt. I was really impressed with the professionalism of the teom ot BreastScreer generotions of mindset changes to make this [breost screening] OK with ourselves and our Hoving Te Rangi [feom Hutt Valiley DHB's Health For my second screening two years later the whole process wos easier. The stoff suggest Saturday becouse of my work- and since my bus route chonges on the weekend, they offered to toke me to the appointment. When 1 walbed in that second time. the atmosphere wos worm welcoming and instontly made me feel comfortab the hey - if we don't see her, we don't carmy on She "'s o free service. It's eosy to do- take odvantoge tought me evenything Ileamed to help the otheroI suspect a lot of people think libe 1 dac if you lodies. I wouldn't have gone in without her Ask dont have a family history of breost concer, then the receptionist to call on their support people. It it's not needed. But studies show the mojority con reduce your arodety and is such a bonus when of women who get breost concer hove no fomily history of the disease. You just dont know for sure For more information on breost sereening, visit Your whanau are welcome. There is flexblitu Lots of women in my community get frustroterd they don't enow whot's going to hoppen to They think: ohh, my gids are fine. and ignore the emwith appointment times and,in some coses even www.timetoscreen.ng