Health Centre offers cancer screening

The Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre is offering cancer screenings for breast, cervical, and colorectal cancer during the month of October.

The screening event, which is in its second year, is being provided by the Simcoe Muskoka Regional Cancer Program.

The event’s focus is connecting women with the appropriate health resources to provide them with education, and if necessary, screening tests.

Women can register through the RVH website, and then will be contacted and depending on the results of the phone screening, directed towards a mammogram, pap test, or a fecal occult blood test.

Cancer is the second leading cause of death in Canada.