Health Department Announces Openings for BCCCP Program

The North Carolina Breast and Cervical Cancer Control Program (NC BCCCP) provides free or low-cost breast and cervical cancer screenings and follow-up to eligible women in North Carolina. Each year, NC BCCCP strives to provide services to over 12,000 women.

NC BCCCP services are offered at most local health departments as well as some community health centers, hospitals and private physicians’ offices across the state for eligible North Carolina women.

You are eligible if you:

are uninsured or underinsured;

are without Medicare Part B or Medicaid;

are between ages 40 – 64 for breast screening services and 21 – 64 for cervical screening services; and

have a household income at or below 250% of the federal poverty level.

BCCCP eligible women may also be eligible for NC WISEWOMAN, which provides cardiovascular disease screening, and helps women to improve their diet, physical activity, and other life habits to prevent, delay, or control cardiovascular and other chronic diseases.

Services Offered

Cervical cancer screenings (Pap tests, HPV tests)

Clinical breast exams

Screening mammograms

Diagnostic procedures, as indicated (diagnostic mammograms, ultrasounds, colposcopies, breast and cervical biopsies)

Medical consultations