Thames Valley Family Health Team (TVFHT) is expanding eligibility for their free cancer screening pop-up clinics in St. Thomas. These clinics are now open to anyone who is behind on their cancer screening and would like to be tested, whether or not they have a family physician or primary care nurse practitioner.
The clinics will each offer the following services:
- Pap Tests (Cervical Cancer Screening): Onsite testing
- Testing available to anyone with a cervix, including women, transmasculine and nonbinary people, who are 21 years of age and older
- Cancer Care Ontario suggests most people in this group should be tested every 3 years
- FIT Tests (Colorectal Cancer Screening): Information and access to tests
- Available for those 50 to 74 years of age with no parent, sibling or child diagnosed with colorectal cancer at any age
- Those with this average risk should be screened every 2 years
- Mammograms (Breast Cancer Screening): Information and requisitions
- Available to those 50 to 74 years of age, as well as those who are 30 to 69 years of age and considered high risk (known to have a gene mutation or have a first degree relative with a gene mutation; have a personal or family history of breast or ovarian cancer; have had radiation therapy to the chest to treat another cancer or condition (e.g., Hodgkin lymphoma) before age 30 and at least 8 years ago)
- Cancer Care Ontario suggests most people in this group should be tested every 2 years.
Clinic Information: Dates, Times, Location
The next clinics are on Friday, August 23, and September 6, from 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM each of those days. Each clinic will be at 230 First Ave., Suite 109, St. Thomas, the new home of the Elgin Interdisciplinary Primary Care Team.
Each clinic will also have an Indigenous Patient Care Navigator from Cancer Care Ontario on-site, as well as translation services available through VOYCE.
How to book an appointment
Elgin residents are encouraged to book an appointment ahead of time. Booking is available over the phone by calling 226-726-8440 and pressing “4” to speak to the TVFHT Team Administrative Assistant.
Walk-in appointments will be accommodated for those who are not able to schedule an appointment over the phone. Walk-ins will be accommodated based on availability.
TVFHT would like to thank the partners whose support is making these clinics possible: East Elgin Family Health Team, Central Community Health Centre, West Elgin Community Health Centre, and Elgin Ontario Health Team.