BreastScreen Victoria with Ramahyuck District Aboriginal Corporation – Morwell

Get your breasts checked with BreastScreen Victoria and Ramahyuck District Aboriginal Corporation – Morwell

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.

The BreastScreen mobile screening van will be visiting Ramahyuck District Aboriginal Corporation – Morwell on Thursday 18 April and Friday 19 April. 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 Ramahyuck District Aboriginal Corporation on (03) 5136 5128.

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 is ‘We are one’ designed by the talented Gunai Kurnai artist, Marilyn Fenton.

“Breast Screening is important to me and also important for my daughters and granddaughters for when they get older to have it. Breast Screening is for all the woman in our community and to be award and to support them though what ever they are going though I’m so happy I had my breast screen after all the years I didn’t have it.”