Postal Strike and Cancer screening

The current Canada Post service disruption impacts cancer screening program activities:

1. Correspondence with patients:
   1. During the strike patients will not receive the usual reminders to be screened nor their results from Ontario Health (normal or abnormal) 
2. FIT kits:
   1. While we can continue to order FIT kits via FAX, these requisitions will be held for processing with no kits mailed until the postal service is available
   2. There is no option to pick up kits at Lifelabs
   3. Kits that patients complete (that they already had), cannot be mailed in but can be dropped off to LifeLabs
   4. Completed FITs will continue to be tested when received by the lab, however, stool samples break down over time. If a sample is tested between 15 and 30 days after it was collected, the lab may be unable to determine a result; participants must redo the test. If a sample arrives at the lab more than 30 days after it was collected, the sample will not be tested; participants must redo the test