This is a first in Allier, breast cancer screening in a Mammobile, a converted truck. He is crisscrossing the department until October 27 to try to relaunch this screening. The latter has fallen in Allier by more than 10% in just over 10 years.
The place is welcoming: pink, like the month of October now. In this Mammobile, a truck designed to screen for breast cancer, health professionals travel across Allier to leave no patient behind. On the left, the radiologist, on the right, the technician and the mammography machine. The manipulator is a retired volunteer, like the doctor and the radiologist with whom she works in the Mammobile.
This breast cancer screening in this converted truck is aimed at women over 50 in Allier. Like every two years, they received an invitation but had the choice to do it in this truck rather than elsewhere. Valérie hadn’t had an exam in four years: “It’s far away, it’s also the lack of time because it means spending a full half-day depending on the exams and emergencies that there may be… We don’t necessarily want to wait half a day. day in hospitals or elsewhere. »
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This is a first in Allier, breast cancer screening in a Mammobile, a converted semi-trailer. He is crisscrossing the department until October 27 to try to relaunch this screening. It has fallen in Allier by more than 10% in just over 10 years. • ©France Televisions
Forgotten examinations, sometimes because of distance or financial difficulties but also because of a drop in the number of radiologists and long delays for an appointment – sometimes 8 months. As a result, screening is in free fall, explains Pierre Darbelet, head of the Allier screening site in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region: “In organized screening, we were between 60 and 70% of the population concerned who participated at the beginning of the 2010s, falling to less than one woman in 2, 48%. When we know that it concerns women aged 50 to 74, around 60,000 women in Allier, there are less than 30,000 who adhere to the system. »
The experience, organized with health insurance or the regional health agency, will last one month. No less than 400 appointments have already been made in the 15 municipalities where the bus will make a stop. The selected municipalities are more than 30 minutes from a radiology center.
Here are the municipalities and dates concerned:
Mayet-de-Montagne from October 2 to 3, 2023 Gannat on October 4, 2023 Montmarault on October 5, 2023 Marcillat en Combraille on October 6 and 9, 2023 Vallon-en-Sully from October 10 to 11, 2023 Cérilly on October 12, 2023 Lurcy-Levis on October 13, 2023 Bourbon l’Archambault from October 16 to 17, 2023 Cosne d’Allier on October 18, 2023 Le Montet on October 19, 2023 Saint-Pourçain-sur-Sioule on October 20 and 23, 2023 Varennes-sur-Allier on October 24, 2023 Lapalisse October 25, 2023 Le Donjon October 26, 2023 Dompierre-sur-Besbre October 27, 2023
Here is the route of the Mammobus in Allier. • © CRCDC AURA, ORS AURA Mapping
With last minute registrations, more than 500 mammograms are expected to be performed. At the moment, all slots are full, but you can register on waiting lists via the AURA Cancer Screening website.
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