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  HEALTH--YARMOUTH PREVIEWS MOBILE BREAST SCREENING UNIT
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  Nova Scotia's mobile breast screening unit will be at the
  Yarmouth Regional Hospital parking lot Saturday, Nov. 4 from
  10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Women are welcome to drop by the unit for
  breast screening.
  
  The unit normally travels throughout Cape Breton but is
  coming to Yarmouth on the occasion of a local Women's Health
  Awareness Day.
  
  "Plans are in the works for expanding the provincial
  mammography program to the western region in 1996; this
  gives the Yarmouth area a preview of what's to come," said
  Bob St. Laurent, regional director for the western health
  region.
  
  Two technologists operate the unit which was unveiled only
  last year in Sydney at its home base, Cape Breton Regional
  Hospital. The unit returns to Sydney on Sunday.
  
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  Contact: Chris Hansen  902-424-5925
  
  trp                       Nov. 03, 1995