 I'm here at the atrium of the Royal Jubilee Patient Care Centre happy to announce on behalf of the province of British Columbian on behalf of Health Minister Dr. Margaret McDermott a new publicly funded screening test for colorectal cancer. The statistics are right now of over 23 approximately 23,000 Canadians every year diagnosed with this disease and about 92 of us are losing the battle and I think that with the new fecal immunochemical testing I like to call it the fit test or the fit program. The numbers can be greatly lessened by early detection. We've got a great history or the first ones in the world to implement the cervical cancer screening in the 60s we've got mammographies and now we've got the colon screening so it's actually building on the blocks of strength that we had in the past and unfortunately colon cancer is a has the nickname of a silent killer so by the time that an individual has symptoms it usually is too late for cure and therefore it's an ideal candidate to look at screening. The amount that is being set aside is between five and ten million dollars for this. The BC Cancer Agency is the lead agency where they're being provided with I believe two million dollars and the balance of the funds will allow for the health authorities for the patient coordinators for a data collection system to monitor for all of this to work together to make sure that we have a screening program province-wide anywhere in the province that people can ensure that they can access this new testing this new screening that's available.