Media Release

Northern Territory Government

NT Health BreastScreenNT mobile service hits the road again

8 May 2023

Free breast screening will be available to women aged 50 to 74 this week as ‘Millie’, the BreastScreenNT mobile screening bus, visits Parliament House in Darwin.

Millie will be parked outside Parliament House from Monday, 8 May to Friday, 12 May, before hitting the road for this year’s remote screening schedule.

From May to July, Millie will visit a number of regional and remote locations in the Top End and Big Rivers regions including Wurrumiyanga, Pirlangimpi, Daly River, Batchelor, Adelaide River, Pine Creek, Mataranka and Katherine.

From August, Millie and the BreastScreenNT team will head further south to Borroloola before visiting the Barkly region and Central Australia. Stops will include Tennant Creek, Harts Range, Atitjere, Hermannsburg, Yuendumu, Yulara and Alukura.

Last year, BreastScreenNT performed more than 5,300 screens to women across the Northern Territory (NT). Of those screens, 810 were performed at 20 remote communities by the mobile breast screening bus.

BreastScreenNT detected breast cancer in 50 women in the NT in 2022.

There are permanent screening facilities in Darwin and Palmerston and two screening blocks each year in Alice Springs from around April to May and August to September.

BreastScreenNT provides free mammograms (breast x-rays) for the early detection of breast cancer in women aged 50 to 74 years of age.

To make an appointment with BreastScreenNT, call 13 20 50 [tel:%2013%2020%2050].

To be eligible for a breast screen women need to hold a current Medicare card and have no current breast concerns or symptoms.

Women aged 40 to 49 years or over 74 years are welcome to screen with BreastScreenNT, but it is recommended they have a discussion with their doctor in the first instance.

For more information about BreastScreenNT, visit [https://nt.gov.au/wellbeing/cancer-services/breastscreennt]

Media contact: [media.health@nt.gov.au]

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