At a glance
NBCCEDP award recipients share their strategies for increasing cancer screenings.
Background
Backed by 30 years of experience, National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP) award recipients share their strategies for increasing cancer screenings.
Stories
Enhancing Clinic Services for Patients
Highlights from programs that improved patient services.
Improving Provider Performance
Ways in which programs encouraged health care providers to refer patients for cancer screening.
Providing Training and Education
Highlights from some programs that trained clinic staff and patient navigators.
Establishing Workplace Policies
Programs worked with employers to educate their workers about cancer screening.
Programs used data to reach women who needed cancer screening services.
Meeting the Needs of Special Populations
Programs help people with disabilities, victims of a natural disaster, and others get screened.
Increasing Outreach to Underserved Groups
Programs reached out to women without insurance and women who speak languages other than English.
Offering Flexible Hours and Locations
Programs provided cancer screening services on weekends, at health fairs, and on a mammogram van.
Programs provided rides to doctor's appointments or offered cancer screening at a central location.