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yesterday (Monday) that the breast cancer screening unit will definitely be lo- cated in the county town, Ennis, but an exact location has not yet been
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The unit is large and is usually lo- cated on the site of hospitals or in large car parks with nearby facili- Woe
Screening of women for breast can- cer began in Clare in August 2009 when women from the north of the county were invited to attend the BreastCheck Western Unit in Gal- WEN
A mobile unit must be rolled out to cater for the rest of the women in the county.
Breast cancer screening has been available in other parts of the coun- try for more than seven years, and women in Roscommon who, like
Clare women, are in the HSE West area, were last June invited for their second round of screening.
There are in excess of 8,000 eligible women from Clare to be screened.
BreastCheck provides free mam- mograms (breast x-rays) to women aged 50 to 64 on an area-by-area ba- sis, reflective of electoral divisions, every two years.
Women aged 50 to 64 in Counties Clare, Donegal, Galway, Leitrim, Mayo, Roscommon, Sligo and Tip- perary north are screened from the BreastCheck Western Unit and at- tached mobile digital screening OTOP LAE
BreastCheck advises all women
aged 50 to 64 to check that they are on the BreastCheck register.
Once on the register and known to the programme, women will auto- matically receive a BreastCheck ap- pointment.
Since early March, the breast clinic at the Mid Western Regional Hos- pital Limerick – the centre of excel- lence for the mid-west – is only pro- viding symptomatic mammography, with routine screening mammogra- phy now falling under the auspices of BreastCheck.
For more than a year, women from Clare, seeking a routine mammo- eramme (breast x-ray) had to pay privately for it in Galway.