The Fiji Cancer Society says the money they collect during campaigns are used to pay for the transportation cost for home visits to cancer patients.
Vice President Phillip Low says some patients in the interior areas cannot afford to come for their clinics in the main centres
He says the society pays for nurses to visit them individually.
Low says they collected more than $100,000 last year but the final figure will be released sometime this week.
Only Lautoka and Suva Hospitals provide the cancer clinic services.
He says the patients are assisted in all the divisions.
Meanwhile, the Society is calling on all the women and young girls to get their screening done for cervical and breast cancer.
Low says that women and girls are shy to get the screening done.
However, he says due to frequent public awareness more women are now turning up for their screening and pap smear testing.
According to the Ministry of Health, 248 cases of breast cancer and 236 cases of cervical cancer were recorded from 2014 to the month of June last year.
Low says pap smear testing and awareness on how to test for breast cancer is available in all the Health Centers around the country.
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