CANSA offers the following screening tests / examinations at most of our CANSA Care Centres countrywide. - Mobile Health Clinics – 9 in total throughout SA, visiting remote, rural areas to conduct screening otherwise not accessible to residents (enquire re scheduled visits at your nearest CANSA Care Centre) - screening Cervical Cancer (Pap smears) - screening Breast Cancer (Clinical Breast Examinations & SureTouch Machine) - screening Prostate Cancer (Prostate Specific Antigen finger-prick blood test) - screening Skin Cancer (Fotofinder Mole-mapping Machine) Lifestyle Risk Assessments (Assessing your cancer risk) Certain screening equipment, due to expense, is shared and roams between Care Centres as required. For this reason it is important to book an appointment for a screening & to enquire whether a particular Care Centre offers a particular type of screening. Read more: http://www.cansa.org.za/get-screened-early-detection/

2. CANSA Mobile Health Clinic
CANSA’s Mobile
Health Clinics travel
to remote areas
throughout South
Africa to reach
people who would
otherwise not have
access to screening

3. Why screening is important
Early detection is important to help with more
effective treatment and to have a better chance of
recovering from cancer. Late diagnosis of cancer
can lead to a poor response to treatment and a
poor diagnosis. It’s also important to know what
screening options are available to you, especially if
you have a family history of cancer.

4. Cancer screening
• Clinical Breast Examinations
• Pap smears - screening test for
early diagnosis of cervical cancer
• FotoFinder screening - mole
mapping dermoscope devices for
detecting skin cancer

5. Cancer screening
• Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA) tests – finger prick
blood test to help detect prostate abnormalities
• How to do testicular self-examinations to reduce
the risk of testicular cancer
• Colorectal cancer screening - testing for occult
(concealed) blood in stool

6. Health screening
• Healthy Lifestyle Risk
Assessment
• HIV rapid tests - finger
prick blood test
• Blood glucose tests for
diabetes

7. Nqobile Nkabinde (32) Care Worker from the Soshanguve
Community Clinic took part in a recent CANSA wellness and
screening day at the clinic and said, “As a field worker, I
get exposed to different things on a daily basis and I always
grab the opportunity of being screened every time CANSA
does wellness and screening at the clinics. I am deeply
touched by women I meet during my daily home visits,
since most of them discovered at a late stage that they
have cancer that could have been detected much sooner if
they had gone for screening. As part of my home visits, I
educate the women about the importance of early
detection of cancer.”

9. www.cansa.org.za
Toll-free 0800 22 66 22
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