Only 1 in 5 eligible women has access to a federal program that provides lifesaving breast cancer screenings. What about the other 4? We need to ensure that all women have access to mammograms and lifesaving treatment services. Today, there is only enough funding to screen 1 in 5 women eligible for the community-based breast and cervical cancer screening program run by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The result is that millions of women are going without lifesaving screenings and treatment.  But, you can help save someone’s mother, sister, daughter or friend. The National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program (NBCCEDP) provides low-income, uninsured and underinsured women access to lifesaving breast cancer screening tests and follow-up services.

We Saved Mammograms Earlier this year, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network mounted an unprecedented campaign to stop a bill that would have eliminated guaranteed insurance coverage for mammograms and other cancer screenings and treatment.  Making Strides participants joined more than 100,000 volunteers from across the county in convincing their U.S. Senators to oppose the bill. Learn more about this highly successful campaign and this important legslative issue. Read More   National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program Want to know more about the National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program? Click here to read a one-page information sheet on this successful, lifesaving program. Making Strides Against Breast Cancer Get involved with the Making Strides event in your community.