Preventive Care
Our Family Health Team will encourage you to access preventive health care that is available in Ontario including cancer screening and vaccinations such as:
- Cervical Cancer screening – recommended for all people with a cervix to be screened for cervical cancer with a Pap smear every three years between ages 25 to 69 (or more often if you have had an abnormal test in the past)
- Breast Cancer screening – recommended for all people with breasts to be screened for breast cancer with a mammogram every two years between ages 50 and 74 (or more often if you are high risk)
- Colorectal Cancer screening – recommended for all people to be screened for colorectal cancer with a ‘ColonCancerCheck’ FIT test every two years between ages 50 to 74 (or by colonoscopy if you are high risk)
- Vaccines that are recommended include:
- Flu vaccination – annual in fall/winter, especially for high risk populations (seniors over 65, children between ages 6 months – 5 years, pregnant people)
- COVID vaccination
- Childhood immunizations (diptheria, tetanus, pertussis, polio, haemophilus influenza B, pneumococcus, meningococcus, varicella, rotavirus)
- Pneumococcal vaccination (Prevnar 20 and Pneumovax 23) for seniors or those at high risk of respiratory disease or immuno suppressed individuals
- Herpes Zoster vaccination (Shingrix) for people over age 50 to protect against shingles
- HPV (human papilloma virus) vaccine to protect against cervical and other genital cancers
- Tetanus vaccination (every 10 years for adults)
- Pertussis vaccination (once over the age of 24 and during the third trimester in each pregnancy)