The free cancer screening was carried out on July 27-28 by the Papua New Guinea Cancer Foundation (PNGCF).
Gaire had the second highest number of people screened this year in the PNGCF Provincial Program and it has the lowest number of people referred for further checkup.
Over 900 participants, both males and females over the age of 18 years were screened for mouth and breast cancer with only 69 people referred for further hospital checkup.
Previous awareness and screening was done in Morobe in February, Milne Bay in April and West New Britain in June.