South Rand Hospital, in collaboration with Pink Drive, hosted a breast cancer awareness campaign on the outside mobile truck on April 21.

Clinical manager at South Rand Hospital, Dr Maebe Letwaba, said Pink Drive is a provincial movement that aims to ensure cancer screening is available in remote areas.

“Today, we focused on breast cancer. Women who come here would have been screened. We also checked the family background and checked for any lumps. We hope they are all negative; if positive, it would be good for early detection.

“A mammogram is a painless procedure where lumps are picked up by X-ray and where a hot lump will indicate cancer. We are happy as the hospital is a place where the community can come to be tested. Remember, we are not healing cancer with this exercise; it is just screening,” he said.

Inside the hospital, pap smear tests, a crucial screening procedure that collects cells from the cervix to detect precancerous changes or cervical cancer early, were administered.