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Service was fully booked

 

The BreastScreen mobile service was fully booked for its visit to Woy Woy during July, with more than 500 women using the service.

The service plans to return to the Peninsula in two years' time.

"We were delighted with the response to the mobile service," said BreastScreen NSW health promotion officer Ms Amy Jones

"We received a great deal of community support, both from residents and from Gosford Council."

She said that, to detect breast cancer early, doctors recommended that women over 50 had a mammogram every two years.

"For this reason, the breast screening service plans to return to the Peninsula in 2004," said Ms Jones.

In its first visit to the Peninsula, the mobile screening van provided free mammograms for local women over 50.

BreastScreen also provides free mammograms at two permanent screening sites, in Gosford and Erina.

Screening takes 20 minutes. For appointments all year round, call 4324 6722.

Press release, August 5