First Nations adults in the northwest are the target for a new cancer screening program.
The Regional Cancer Centre in Thunder bay has received $100-thousand from Cancer Care Ontario for the program.
Vice President Linda Rabeneck says its an important one.
"The screening rates in First Nations and among aboriginals is too low," says Rabeneck. "Their burden of cancer is too high. Their survival rates are not as good."
The Centre is hoping to get 70 per cent of the region's First Nations people tested.
