ee Soy a Eh a Mammograms resume as hospital gets new machine Long waiting list of women greets mobile breast cancer screening unit By JOANNA WONG TERRACE WOMEN breathed a sigh of relief last week as Mills Memorial Hospital’s long-awaited new mammogram machine finally rolled into town, More than 500 women have been waiting for breast’ cancer screening since last November, when inspectors pulled the plug on the hospital's 19-year-old ma- chine due to its unreliability. “A replacement was delayed by a general freeze on government health expenditures that was lifted this spring. About 60 per cent of the cost of the new $150,000 ma- chine was paid for by the pro- vince, with the rest covered by the regional district. The high-tech state-of-the-art machine is mobile, and can go anywhere a.wheelchair can go. Hospital officials say it will likely visit neighboring communities. “We're planning to go north with it, but you have to look at your numbers to justify it,” said Ken Pitzel, the Director of Dia- gnostic and Therapeutic Support Services at Mills. _' Pitzel says provincial health officials will determine which communities are in need of the machine and then organize a schedule, “It probably will not de until at least September,” said Pitzel. “Getting the machine on the road will be based on clearing up the backlog here,” Fortunately, the new machine is faster and more effective. “This is the first machine of its kind in Canada,” said Barbara Gi- lewicz, wha works for Medtec, MAMMOGRAM technologists Petra Kaster and Renita Fraess will be working with the new mobile screening unit that arrived at Mills Memorial last week. JOANNA WONG PHOTO the company responsible for dis- tributing the machine. Gilewicz was here for two days last week helping to train Terrace mammegram technologists on the machine. “This is totally new techno- logy,” she said. Old mammogram machines screened breast tissue by com- pressing the breast with a plastic plate onto a film plate. According to Gilewicz, the new machine increases the amount of breast tissue that’s able to be screened by pulling the breast further onto the film. “More problems are found in the armpit, so when you pull breast tissue onto the film you have a better chance of detecting breast cancer,” she said. Gilewicz explains that a can- cerous breast is a bit like a jar of marbles with a diamond in it. The new machine’s pulling motion is like spreading the mar- bles onto a table so that the dia- mond, or tumour, becomes easier to find. Gilewicz said the machine is the wave of the future and is curr- ently the mammogram of choice in the United States. “It’s very easy to use,” said technologist Renita Fraess, who says feedback from patients has so far been really positive. Mammographies, said Gile- wicz, are key in early detection of breast cancer and should be done regularly by women over 50. Fireworks on again after donors pitch in By JENNIFER LANG AN OUTPOURING of community saved this year’s Riverboat Days Fireworks display. The popular display lights up a festivities organized around Riverboat Days, Terrace’s biggest celebration of the year. “We phoned the firemen at noon today and we told'!them'to order-the fireworks," boat Days Society, president. Karlene Clark said, “We’ re so excited about the community support.” As of Friday, Clark said the society had re- ceived more than $4,000 in financial contribu- tions from local businesses, service clubs and support has individuals, “I just want to say a huge thank you for the way they stepped forward and helped,” she said, “It was just awesome.” The society will be able cover the rest of the cost itself. “I'm sure it’s a go," Clark said. The committee was forced. to look: else- . where for a way to pay for the fireworks after -" learning the city turned town its $5,000 grant request due to budget constraints. A lacklustre economic climate in Terrace weekend of ‘River- \ MISTY RIVER TACKLE & HUNTING and the fact that one of the city’s largest tax- payers, Skeena Cellulose, isn’t paying its $816,000 property tax bill, means the city is f’RE Your ONE STOP SHoPh ® Largest Sel ction Of <>=Painthall Supplies! — ra ACO, Refill Slaten = So tS he critics agree. 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The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, July 17, 2002 - A3 News In Brief Deep Creek safe TERRACE’S DEEP Creek fish hatchery appears to have has escaped the blow of anticipaled federal cutbacks to the Salmoinid Enhancement Program. “There’s no plans to reduce funding for our soc- iety or the hatcheries here,” said Jim Culp, a dir- ector for the Terrace Salmoinid Enhancement Soc- iety, “We were assured that the money is place.” The Kitimat Hatchery as well as others around the province are facing program cancellations, lay- offs and other budget. cuts, The Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO) made a commitment in 1996 to cut $3.5 million from enhancement programs over time, said Sue Farlinger a DFO spokesperson for the program. So far those cuts have not been made. “That commitment was made in 1996 and we’te in a position now of trying to figure out how to im- plement it,” Farlinger said. Effecis of anticipated cuts remain ta be seen be- cause the budget for this fiscal year — which began in April — has not yet been approved, she said. “1 don’t know the final budget but I know it will be less than last year,” she added. Last year’s bud- get for the program was $27 million. “The big issue is fundamentally that the final decisions haven't been made,” Farlinger said. “The details of what happens at any particular fa- cility pretty much depends on that.” New gov't agent A FORMER transportation ministry manager here is the new government agent in Terrace. Laurie Fulford took over the duties in June after a lengthy gap between agents when Randy Trom- bley left last year. Fulford had spent 14 years with the transporta- tion ministry, starting as a file clerk and ending up aS an area manager. 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