A big pink bus will be sitting outside of New Westminster's city hall in August in an effort to fight cancer.
More than 7,500 people have filtered through the Canadian Breast Cancer Foundation's Pink Tour Bus and more than 485 have signed up to arrange mammograms since May.
"Tour staff guide visitors through the interactive displays and encourage women between 40 and 79 to book a free mammogram in their communities," states a press release. "For the first time, women who register on the bus will receive calls back from the Screening Mammography Program of B.C. to arrange an appointment for their mammogram."
The branded bus is expected to visit more than 50 B.C. communities in less than five months.
On August 10 from 11:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. the bus will stop at city hall on 511 Royal Ave.
Only 51 per cent of eligible women in B.C. have a mammogram test done regularly, and according to the World Health Organization, if at least 70 per cent of eligible women did the check up, the number of breast cancer related deaths would be reduced by up to one third.
"The practice of breast health is important to all women," the CBCF B.C./Yukon region press release states. "The Pink Tour Bus team is as ethnically diverse as the communities they will be visiting throughout B.C."
All visitors can expect to read more about breast health in English and several Asian languages.
Go to www.thepinktour.com for more information.
