Ontario Connecting One Million More Women to Life-Saving Breast Cancer Screening

Starting today, during Breast Cancer Awareness Month, women over the age of 40 can self-refer for publicly funded mammograms through the Ontario Breast Screening Program (OBSP). This historic expansion will give an additional one million women the option to connect to important screening services to detect and treat breast cancer sooner.

Research has shown regular screening with mammography can help detect breast cancer before it has the chance to spread. By lowering the age of self-referral from 50 to 40, more women can now easily self-refer for mammograms through any OBSP site or by calling 1-800-668-9304 without needing a referral from a primary care provider.

Of the one million women between age 40-49 that are now eligible for mammograms, it is estimated that an additional 305,000 will self refer for screening.

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En: Breast Cancer Screening

Fr: Dépistage du cancer du sein