By Timothy Kelheart Erie County is offering free cancer screenings for residents that are under insured or uninsured. The Erie County Department of Health offers free breast, cervical, and colon cancer screenings for Erie County residents that are either underinsured or uninsured. The Cancer Service...

By Timothy Kelheart

Erie County is offering free cancer screenings for residents that are under insured or uninsured.
The Erie County Department of Health offers free breast, cervical, and colon cancer screenings for Erie County residents that are either underinsured or uninsured. The Cancer Services Program provides free screenings for over 1,000 residents each year. Breast, cervical, and colon cancer are completely preventable and these screenings can save lives.
Don’t be discouraged by your lack of coverage or your limited coverage to get yourself screened for these life threatening ailments. No person regardless of financial wellbeing will be denied access to obtain these services that can save lives through early detection and treatment.

The Cancer Services Program works with hundreds of providers across Erie County providing residents with access to a cancer screener near them. By enrolling in this service men and women across Western New York can have access to most of Catholic Health’s sites to obtain these free screenings, diagnostics, and treatment services.
The Program has Eligibility Requirements of:
Underinsured & Uninsured women ages 40 or older (or younger, if family history/or palpable finding) are eligible for breast cancer screenings.
Underinsured & Uninsured women ages 40 or older are eligible for cervical cancer screenings.
Underinsured & Uninsured women ages 50 or older are eligible for colon cancer screenings.
Underinsured & Uninsured men ages 50 or older (or younger, if family history) are eligible for colon cancer screenings.
Visit http://www.cspwny.org/ or call (716) 858-7376 for more information on this program.