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Beautiful Shawl Project at Mallee District Aboriginal Service Mildura

October 14 - October 15

Get your breasts checked with Mallee District Aboriginal Service (MDAS) Mildura and BreastScreen Victoria.

Get your breasts checked and protect yourself against breast cancer. Put your health centre stage by getting a free breast screen every two years from age 50. Regular breast screens are the best way to find breast cancer early and when treatment is most likely to be successful.

MDAS are coordinating bookings at BreastScreen Sunraysia/Mildura on 14th-15th October. Your free breast screen will be done in a culturally safe environment with a female radiographer and will only take 10 minutes.

For more information contact MDAS Mildura on (03) 5018 4100.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women will receive a FREE beautiful shawl (below) to use during the screening that they can keep afterwards.

The artwork on this beautiful shawl ‘Family Connection – Yammas (Breasts)‘ designed by the talented Kamilaroi, Yinarr Waa-uu artist, Melinda Cain.

“My painting depicts the family connection to yamman cancer.

In Kamilaroi language we call breasts YAMMANs. Four strong Kamilaroi Aboriginal women was just living their life as normal. All four women decide to have a mammogram and all four-women tested showed abnormal cells related to Breast cancer.
My Mother’s breast cancer was in the lymph nodes and she began her treatment, my two aunties had both lost one of their yammans. One special aunty lost her fight with breast cancer. Always check your yammans and have a mammogram.”

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Start:
October 14
End:
October 15
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