Free Cancer Screening Locator
Free cancer screening and preventive care, state by state, for Black families.
Free cancer screening and preventive care exists in every state, but the entry pathways are a patchwork — every state calls its program something different, publishes the eligibility criteria in different places, and runs intake through a different phone number.
These pages collect the 5 largest CDC-funded screening programs — NBCCEDP (free mammograms and pap smears), CRCCP (free colonoscopy), WISEWOMAN (free cardiovascular risk screening), and the National Diabetes Prevention Program — and map each to its state operator with the phone, URL, and eligibility that actually work. Every state page leads with the Black-community disparity behind the screening, with race-stratified mortality data from ACS and CDC WONDER.
What we cover
NBCCEDP
Free mammograms · Breast cancer
Black women are 40% more likely to die from breast cancer than white women (ACS, 2024), despite similar incidence rates — the gap traces to later-stage diagnosis, higher triple-ne…
See free mammogramNBCCEDP
Free pap smears · Cervical cancer
Black women die from cervical cancer at roughly twice the rate of white women (CDC WONDER, 2020–2022 three-year average) — a disease that is nearly fully preventable with screenin…
See free pap smearCRCCP
Free colonoscopies · Colorectal cancer
Black Americans have the highest colorectal-cancer incidence and mortality of any racial group in the US — roughly 20% higher incidence and 40% higher mortality than white America…
See free colonoscopyWISEWOMAN
Free heart screenings · Cardiovascular
Black women die from cardiovascular disease at roughly 1.3× the white-women rate (AHA, 2024 statistics update). Hypertension prevalence among Black women is 58% — the highest of a…
See free blood pressure cholesterol checkNational DPP
Free diabetes prevention · Diabetes prevention
Black adults have roughly 60% higher type-2 diabetes prevalence than white adults (CDC National Diabetes Statistics Report, 2024). The CDC-recognized DPP cuts type-2 diabetes risk…
See free diabetes prevention programBrowse by state
Methodology & data sources
Program operator + phone + URL per state reflect CDC's most recent published directory as of Q1 2026, cross-checked against each state health department's own pages. Race-stratified mortality comes from the American Cancer Society Cancer Statistics Center, CDC WONDER (2020-2022 three-year aggregates where single-year cell counts are suppressed), and individual state cancer registries.
Refresh cadence: annual for CDC grant status (CDC CRCCP and WISEWOMAN operate on 5-year cycles); quarterly for state-specific program names, phone lines, and URLs; annual for race-stratified mortality.
A small number of states lack a CDC grant for CRCCP or WISEWOMAN. Those pages are clearly labelled — the page renders but is suppressed from the sitemap under the same guardrail used on the rest of the site (data_pending + short narrative).
Data refreshed: