Are you due for cancer screening and without a family doctor or nurse practitioner? Access your cancer screening through the Champlain Screening Outreach Program. To be eligible, you must live in Eastern Ontario and have an OHIP number.

Our Ontario Health Team (OHT) is committed to improving cancer screening rates for breast, cervical, and colorectal cancers. Through a collaborative planning process, the OHT-ÉSO brought together organizational partners involved in cancer screening in various capacities to explore how they can align efforts, enhance collaboration, and develop the work plan for the coming year.

The working group is pursuing 5 areas of work: communication resources, codesigned with community ambassadors, clients with lived/ living experience and service providers; community asset inventory; map care pathways and available resources, including post care treatment, for unattached patients with adverse screening test results; map and leverage community wellness events with targeted cancer screening outreach and screening activities; EMR/ Data Sharing Optimization to identify patients due for cancer screening.

Cervical Screening

Talk to your family doctor, nurse practitioner or midwife about getting checked with a cervical screening test to help prevent cervical cancer. For more information on cervical screening, visit  www.cancercareontario.ca/cervical For more information, visit https://www.cancercareontario.ca/cervical 

Breast Screening

The Ontario Breast Screening Program provides breast screening throughout Ontario to eligible people. 

Eligibility

• If you are 40 to 74, the Ontario Breast Screening Program recommends that most people in your age group get checked every two years with a mammogram.
• If you are 30 to 69 and meet the eligibility criteria for the High-Risk Ontario Breast Screening Program, the program recommends getting checked once a year. 
• If you are 30 to 69 years old and think you may be at high risk of getting breast cancer based on your personal or family history, you should speak with your family doctor or nurse practitioner.

For more information on breast screening, visit www.cancercareontario.ca/breast 

Contact your nearest Ontario Breast Screening Program location.

Call the Ontario Breast Screening Program at 1-800-668-9304.

Colon Check

People aged 50 to 74 should get checked for colon cancer, even if no one in their family has had the disease. Talk with your family doctor or nurse practitioner about screening with FIT to prevent colon cancer. If you do not have a family doctor or nurse practitioner, you can get your free ColonCancerCheck FIT kit from Health Connect Ontario by calling 811 (TTY:1-866-797-0007).

For more information on colon cancer screening, visit www.cancercareontario.ca/colorectal

For Indigenous-led health centres, visit https://iphcc.ca/meet-ourmembers/ and https://www.afhto.ca/find-team-near-you.