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ill i i I mmmmm B8 The Vancouver Sun, Thursday, April 6, 1989 Bueck announces breast cancer screening service I 1 352 GREAT HALIBUT SALMON FISHING TWO DAY FLY-IN PACKAGE FROM VANCOUVER BOOK YOUR TRIP NOW! CALL FREE flOCB Vancouver Area uUOUU Residents oo PRICES STARTAT PER PERSON DBL OCC, 1 onn ooo Tnnn oute Our fiihstorisi come true! I OUU UUU UjU Vancouver Jll I I Mil I 1 1 i n' I a I I I I I L-J rl IwlW ix -1 By JOANNE BLAIN Sun Medical Reporter Women outside Vancouver will get improved access to breast cancer screening as a result of provincial flinds for a mobile screening van and three more free-standing mammography clinics. Health Minister Peter Dueck announced his ministry will pay the $360,000 annual cost of operating the mobile service, which will provide routine screening to women in remote areas of the province. IS DUECK THE LARGEST COLLECTION IN CANADA! 2f0 fTC jm Discover our exciting assortment of Spirella bath fashions in our Downtown store. Choose from a complete collection featuring hand-painted ceramic boutiques, 100 cotton Choose from fashionable designs-Collage, Nancy, Fiori, Papier, Flyaway, Cascades and more. But hurry, the sale ends April 29th, 1989! Our reg.

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As well, the ministry will open three new clinics, similar to one set up last year in Vancouver at the Cancer Control Agency of B.C; The locations of those clinics are expected to be announced by the end of the year, 'Dueck said. The decision to fund the new services was made because the Vancouver pilot clinic "has proven to be extremely successful," he said. I In eight months of operation, it has found 17 cases of previously undetected breast cancer, Dueck said. It is estimated vyalk-jn screening programs will find three undetected cancers in every 1,000 women jseen, he said. 'BCMA criticizes van plan president of the cancer society's B.C.

and Yukon division, Anne Pattie, said she hopfs greater early detection of the disease will increase the success of breast cancer treatment. 1 Dr. David Klaassen, director of the Cancer Control Agency of B.C., said the move is "a major step forward for the screeningmammo-graphy program." i But the president of the B.C. Medical Association, Dr. Datfid Blair, said the plan "falls far shprt of being able to provide adequate screening throughout the The expansion of the program "seems to be a slight improvement over the previous state of affairs, where there was only one pilot screening program in the whole province)," Blair said.

JJ Unit useful in country But it might beless expensive and make screening available to even more women if the ministry were to pay for routine mammograms at the 60 existing breast cancer; screening facilities throughout the province, he said. I "That would seem to be a far more useful tack than setting up a complete parallel system," Blair said. But he conceded the mobile unit would be useful in no such facilities exist. CHINESE i Continued from page one being felt in neighborhoods that house the leaders," Sung said. Cathay has 10,700 subscribers paying close to $25 a month.

An estimated 40,000 viewers regularly watch Channel 31. Besides its evening news from 5 to 6 p.m., the station focuses on rebroadcasting Hong Kong and Beijing television programs, The news hour recently finished a series that looked at resi-idential and commercial real estate in Vancouver. Sung said the main reaction was that Chinese-Canad ians "were completely at a loss" at whv thev were being blamed lor increasing residential real estate prices. At the Overseas Chinese Voice, Hanson Lau, Vancouver's main Chi radio personality, Joversees a radio station that joperates from 9 p.m.jto 9 a.m Insomniacs can listen to the Late, Late Live Show at 2 a.m., early birds the Chinese Opera at 5 a.m. and jthen there's the World News and 'News from China at 9:05 p.m.

daily. One of the 16-year-old station's Jnost popular programs is a phone-in js how hosted by 46-year-old Lau. Recently, the program focused on media coverage of Hong Kong and featured a panel that included Nick Jiills, Vancouver Sun editor-in-Schief, and Sun reporter Gillian Shaw, who wrote a recent series of stones from Hong Kong. 1 Callers trvine to eet on the CJVB AM program jammed the lines for three hours. Lau, 46, who arrived in Vancouver from Hong Kong in 1966 with his parents, said that, iwhen racism Chinese-Canadians was more overt in the 1930siand 1940s, Ihe community tended not to respond for fear of creat ing an even more intlamed situation.

Now, with more edufcated and festablished immigrantsarrmng from Hnne Knne. ChinBse-Canad ians are tending to sptjik out in greater nuniDers, ne saisi YOUR SATISFACTION IS GUARANTEED. BELIEVE IT! "74vy -1 -I to 1 fill tfl.