{"id":382,"date":"2021-09-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gyl.fi\/hvest\/2021\/09\/07\/skimun_fyrir_brjostakrabbameini_a_isafirdi_og_patreksfirdi\/"},"modified":"2021-09-07T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T00:00:00","slug":"skimun_fyrir_brjostakrabbameini_a_isafirdi_og_patreksfirdi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hvest.is\/en\/skimun_fyrir_brjostakrabbameini_a_isafirdi_og_patreksfirdi\/","title":{"rendered":"Screening for breast cancer in \u00cdsafj\u00f6r\u00f0ur and Patreksfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">From September 27 to 30, screening for breast cancer will take place at the health center in \u00cdsafj\u00f6r\u00f0ur and from October 4 to 5 at the health center in Patreksfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The women who have received a letter about coming for screening are asked to make an appointment by phone&nbsp;<a href=\"tel:513-6700\">513-6700<\/a>&nbsp;between 8:30 a.m. and 12:00 p.m. every weekday.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;You can also send an email to&nbsp;<a title=\"Send an email to the Cancer Screening Coordination Center\" href=\"mailto:krabbameinsskimun@heilsugaeslan.is\">kank\u00f3sskimun@heilsugaeslan.is<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>PLEASE NOTE that appointments are not accepted at the health centers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heilsugaeslan.is\/serthjonusta\/samhaefingarstod-krabbameinsskimana\/\">website of the Coordination Center for Cancer Screening<\/a> is to find more information about screenings and on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.landlaeknir.is\/gaedi-og-eftirlit\/skimun-fyrir-krabbameini\/skimun-fyrir-brjostakrabbameini\/\">website of the Office of the National Medical Examiner<\/a> are brochures on both cervical and breast screenings in several languages.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>By participating in breast screening, it is possible to detect breast cancer at an early stage and thus significantly reduce the death rate due to the disease.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>It is important to realize, however, that screening is never 100% safe in detecting breast cancer at an early stage.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img src='\/hvest\/gamlar_myndir\/l_image6137d62ed3d0d.jpg'><br \/><em><\/em><\/p>\n<p><img src='\/hvest\/gamlar_myndir\/l_image6137d62f664c9.jpg'><\/p>\n<p><em>Author: SLG<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breast cancer screening will be held from September 27th to 30th at the \u00cdsafj\u00f6r\u00f0ur health center and from October 4th to 5th at the Patreksfj\u00f6r\u00f0ur health center. Women who have received <a href=\"https:\/\/hvest.is\/en\/skimun_fyrir_brjostakrabbameini_a_isafirdi_og_patreksfirdi\/\">More \u203a<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-af-eldri-vef"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvest.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvest.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvest.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvest.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvest.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hvest.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hvest.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvest.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hvest.is\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}