“AB - The Terrace Standard, Wednesday, October 29, 2003 Mammography bus to take one last trip to hospital here A UNIQUE northern ap- proach to health care will have one last hurrah before fading away. Some time this year, a bus ef women from Ste- More than EPILEPSY ¢ EPILEPSY + @ 1-B50-EP)LEPSY EPIC PSY EPILEPSY Ee TeN PSY + L1 FS) BPILODS YE PIE OSS ELLE SY More people bave epilepsy than — AMS., Muscular Dystrophy and Cerebral Palsy combined. BC EPILEPSY INFO LINE (1-896-374-3377) 300,000 Canadians have epilepsy EFFECTIVE FITNESS {Your Family Fitness Centre) WELCOMES Virginia Hawkshaw, Certified § Personal Trainer, Nutrition & Wellness Specialist wart and other places north EPILEPSY With 10 years experience, Virginia of here will make its way CANADA can help with your Health & Fitness needs. to Terrace so they can te- ae ceive mammography THANE TB 0 $477-SHURE Call 635-4130 screening at Mills Memo- WWW. ERIERSY C8 tial Hospital. Popularly known as the Boob Bus, the trip was as The Skeena Valley Rotar : ; oe Y ¥ much as a medical trip as tes Club challenges one and all to Date November 2 a social experience as the De ‘a women were able to enjoy shopping and other activi- ties while in Terrace. The Boob Bus was to design and build a catapult for competition purposes. 1.00 pal have been parked because Bring all your old _Mills now has a new ‘ f mammography screening pumpkins or device, meaning it could sos H be taken on the road in a ammunition in this rented van. years Pumpkin Fling - Mammography screen- . soe ing is considered a key to Prizes for winning early detection of breasi . * cancer, providing the op- " pumpkins will be portunity for treatment to TECHNICIANS PETRA Kaster, left, and Renita Fraess were on hand in July awarded, 2002 when Mills Memorial Hospital took receipt of a new mobile mammegra- begin as soon as possible. phy unit. Plans to take the unit on the road have yet to take shape, FILE PHIOTO But the inability to find experienced technologists The Pumpkin Fling will take place at the Rod & Gun able and willing to go on the road for a week at a time has derailed, at least for now, the plan to take the device north this year, says Lisa Kan of the B.C. Cancer Agency’s screen- ing mammography ‘Pro- gram, “We just ‘couldn't find anybody with ‘mobile ex- perience for this fall,” said Kan. “Finding a van and so on was easier to deal with than finding a tech- nologist.” “In the meantime there are women in Stewart and other places who need mammography screening so what we're going to do is organize transportation down for them and take care of the costs,” she said. As in past years, Mills Memorial will block out a time, probably a Saturday, to do the screening all at once, Kan added. The difficulty in finding technologists to go out on’: the road isn’t restricted to Toxic salmon swim upstream SALMON ARE a signifi- cant source of pollution, bringing toxins upriver from the ecean when they spawn, according to find- ings published in the jour- nal Nature. The study, released last month, found surprisingly high levels of PCBs in remote northern B.C, and Alaskan lakes thought to be pristine. The fish arrive in the spawning grounds loaded with PCBs from oceanic feeding and deposit the chemicals into the sedi- ment when they die, Uni- versity of Ottawa biclagy professor Jules Blais re- ports. Some Alaskan lakes with the highest numbers of spawning salmon had PCB concentrations up to seven times higher than lakes that salmon don’t reach, he found. Those are pollution lev- els like what would be found in Lake Superior, akin to having a waste in- cinerator operating in the wilderness. “This is a remote, pris- tine environment, but with PCB deposition compar- able to an industrial site,” Blais said. Further analysis is con- linuing, Blais said, includ- ing examination of more data from northern B.C. ar- eas like Meziadin and Ki- naskan Lakes. Salmon have long been known as important trans- porters of nutrients. But te- searchers say the. findings increasingly reveal the fish move around bad as well as good chemicals. The problem is that contaminants build up in the fish ahead of their journey home to spawn. The North Pacific con- tains about 1 nanogram of ; ‘mammography. service in. the northwest, she said. “Sometimes we have to go outside of the province to find people. Just recent- ly we've had to go as far as Prince Edward Island,” Kan continued, She did say the mam- mography screening pro- gram has _ tentatively scheduled a trip north next March or Aprii and has al- " BIGGEST PRICE EVER! from 479° 00 ready begun searching for a technologist to do the Sands, Phoenix, Circus, Harrahs trip. Book your Christmas Reno Tour NOW! B.C. is considered one of the country’s leaders in mammography services , tied to the early detection of breast cancer. Mills Memorial pur- chased its new mobile mammography device last year after its stationary one was declared unfit for service because of its age. The decision to pur- chase a mobile one wasn’t made right away, leading to a temporary gap in Out of town. Terrace, PCBs per litre, Blais and his co-workers say. By the time the average salmon has bulked up to head upriver, its fat contains ar- ound 160 micrograms. “The salmon are per- fectly fine for eating,” Blais says. 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