(Photo Provided with Release from Allegheny Health Network)
Noah Haswell, Beaver County Radio News
(Pittsburgh, PA) According to a release from Allegheny Health Network, AHN Cancer Institute will host its monthly Saturday cancer screening clinic on Saturday, July 19th. This will occur at Allegheny General Hospital in Pittsburgh. Registration is now open for non-patients or patients at the hospital either with or without insurance. They can also receive up to seven at one place by calling 412-359-6665. The screenings may include eight types of cancer. According to that same release from Allegheny Health Network, the options for screenings may include:
- Breast cancer (ages 40-74)
- Cervical cancer (ages 21-65)
- Colorectal cancer (ages 45-75)
- Head and neck cancers (ages 18+)
- Lung cancer (ages 50-80 with a history of cigarette smoking)
- Prostate cancer (ages 45-75)
- Skin cancer (ages 18+)
Jefferson Hospital and Forbes Hospital are the places you can make a comprehensive cancer screening appointment if you can not be there for a Saturday clinic and the phone number to contact is 412-359-6665. There are also more screening events for later this year. The Wexford Health + Wellness Pavilion will have a screening event on August 16th, Saint Vincent Hospital in Erie will have a screening event on September 13th and AHN Grove City will have a screening event on October 11th.