What is cancer screening?
Cancer screening involves simple tests that look for early signs of cancer, or the conditions that cause cancer. Screening tests can find cancer before you can see or feel any changes to your body. When you find cancer early, it is easier to treat successfully. This fact sheet summerises the three different screening processes for breast- bowel and cervical cancer.
COVID-19 Coronavirus resources collection by NSW Government
Various brochures, fact sheets, videos and posters on COVID-19 prevention and regulations in NSW. It also includes information for NSW residential care residents and families.
You can have a cervical screening test at any time during pregnancy
You can have a cervical screening test at any time during pregnancy is a video for women aged 25 years and over who are due for a cervical screening test. Cervical screening saves lives! Talk with your doctor, midwife or nurse if you are due for your cervical screening test.
How to Wear a Mask
Wearing a mask can help stop the spread of COVID-19
Increasing awareness of breast screening
Health is important for all women. This video supports increasing awareness about breast screening in multicultural communities. Please tag a friend or family member who might like to hear these important key messages. The languages featured in this video are Soussou, Hindi, Vietnamese, Rohynga, Chinese, Arabic, Indonesian, Bangla, and Urdu.
Do the test when it comes in the post
Monkeypox
Monkeypox is a rare viral infection usually associated with travel to Central and West Africa. It is usually spread by very close contact with someone with monkeypox and most people recover within a few weeks.
Breast screening and you
About breast cancer Breast screening and you 20 minutes every 2 years could save your life.
Mindfulness Program Audio Resources
These Mindfulness resources have been developed to provide you with some strategies to manage stress and enjoy a better quality of life. Mindfulness is about training ourselves to pay attention to the present moment without judgement. The everyday challenges of these unprecedented times due to the COVID-19 pandemic result in unavoidable stress. Practicing mindfulness helps reduce stress and anxiety, and can improve our overall wellbeing. It can also help to improve focus, memory, cultivate calmness and regulate emotions. This set of Mindfulness audio resources includes 6 Mindfulness exercises, each lasting between 5 to 17 minutes. To maximize the benefits of the mindfulness strategies, we suggest that you practice as often as you can even when you are not feeling stressed.
Legionnaires’ disease
Legionnaires' disease is an infection of the lungs (pneumonia) caused by Legionella bacteria. Infection occurs when a person breathes in these bacteria. It can usually be cured by treatment with antibiotics.