Team Cancer
Your Link to Cancer Care in Your Community
SPRING 2015
Focus on Cancer Screening

Our regional screening program helps promote and provide support for Cancer Care Ontario's (CCO) three provincial screening programs:

 

* the Ontario Breast Screening Program (OBSP)

* the Ontario Cervical Screening Program

* and ColonCancerCheck.

 

This means working closely with 22 OBSP screening sites and 6 endoscopy suites in our region to ensure we`re always meeting CCO's  quality standards.

 

Our regional screening team also provides support to 900 primary care providers in Central East and works closely with 4 public health units and other community organizations in our region to raise public

and provider awareness that screening saves lives.

 

Screening Rates in Central East Region
 

  

Cancer Screening Quality Improvement Projects
  

In mid-February a call for quality improvement funding applications was sent out to all primary care providers practicing in the Central East LHIN who would like to implement a cancer screening QI project in the 2015/2016 fiscal year.


We are pleased to be supporting 12 QI projects in communities across our region representing the diverse population that makes up Central East.

 

This initiative will support our primary care community with projects ranging from patient engagement, developing translated patient educated materials, process improvement and staff education.

 

The Prevention and Cancer Screening team look forward to sharing the learnings and resources that come from these projects later in the year.

 

 

News and Events
  

Rosemary Donnelly (pictured left), a nurse navigator at the Colorectal Diagnostic Assessment Program at Lakeridge Health takes on colorectal cancer survivor and TV personality Neil Crone (pictured right) during an Oshawa Generals shoot-out contest. The duo were raising awareness about colorectal cancer screening and My CancerIQ, a new online tool from Cancer Care Ontario that allows men and women to assess their personal risk for breast, colorectal, cervical and lung cancer.

  

 

Your Care
  

Increasing awareness and acces to screening for First Nations Inuit and Metis people in our region.

  
Your Way
  
Making Cancer Screening Comfortable
Your Experts

Meet our Regional Cancer Screening Leads
  

 

 

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