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Skin cancer awareness is hitting the road across Canada this summer.<\/p>\n
The Mole Mobile, which operates in partnership with the Canadian Dermatology Association and offers free skin cancer screenings by dermatologists, is in Thunder Bay this week, part of a road trip that’s running from May to October.<\/p>\n
“Canada has one of the lowest ratios of dermatologists-to-population in the world,” said Dr. Mark Kirchhof, one of the dermatologists on the road with the Mole Mobile. “We know that wait times to see dermatologists are incredibly long across this country.”<\/p>\n
“This mobile service has been traveling across the country to communities where there may be a limited amount of access,” he said. <\/p>\n
“I can give you examples of patients who I’ve seen in these types of mobile clinics where they’ve had a spot, they’ve ignored it for many years. Maybe they don’t have a family doctor. And then this service has provided a way to get into the medical system and to get a cancer identified and eventually removed.”<\/p>\n
And skin cancer rates are rising in Canada, Kirchhof said.<\/p>\n
“It’s one of the most common types of cancers in Canada,” he said. “That baby boomer generation that really enjoyed the sun in their younger years is now unfortunately having to pay for it, and so it’s keeping us busy.”<\/p>\n
The Mole Mobile that’s in Thunder Bay is one of two travelling the country. It was set up in the parking lot of County Fair Plaza on Friday, and will move to the Arthur Street Marketplace on Saturday, when it will be open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.<\/p>\n
Chris Hack Peterson was among the people getting screening done on Friday.<\/p>\n
“I like the idea,” he said of the Mole Mobile. “I think it’s important to catch cancer early, and if you catch it late, well, there’s nothing you can do about it.”<\/p>\n
After the Mole Mobile leaves Thunder Bay, it will visit Parry Sound on Sept. 4, North Bay on Sept. 5, and Sudbury on Sept. 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":875076,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,48,84],"class_list":["post-875075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875075\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/875076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}