Free or Low-Cost Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening: Who Qualifies

The program

CDC's National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP) provides breast and cervical cancer screening and diagnostic services to women who have low incomes and are uninsured or underinsured.

Are you eligible?

You may qualify for free or low-cost screening if:

• Insurance: you have none, or yours doesn't cover screening exams;
• Income: your yearly income is at or below 250% of the federal poverty level;
• Age: you are 40 to 64 for breast cancer screening, or 21 to 64 for cervical cancer screening. Some younger or older women may also qualify.

Find a program near you

The program is run through award recipients in each state, territory and some tribes. On CDC's program page, choose yours to see:

• who to contact to find out whether you qualify and where to get screened;
• a five-year summary of the screening it has provided.

About the summaries

• They cover services paid for directly by the NBCCEDP, as reported to CDC in its Minimum Data Elements.
• Privacy: data are not shown for recipients that served fewer than 200 women, or where a group has fewer than 16.
• They break results down by race and ethnicity and age group. Percentages may not add to 100% because of rounding, and 0.0% means less than 0.05%.

Sources

Based on "Find a Screening Program Near You," Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; a work of the United States government in the public domain. The program-by-program contact details and data are on CDC's interactive page. Its stock photograph is not reproduced.