# Australia's national cancer screening programs

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## TL;DR

Australians are invited to free bowel, breast and cervical screening by age, and since 2025 to lung screening if they have a heavy smoking history.

## Summary

Australia runs three long-standing population screening programs, each free to eligible residents and each with its own government page stating the age range: the National Bowel Cancer Screening Program posts a home test kit every two years, BreastScreen Australia offers mammography through state services, and the National Cervical Screening Program uses HPV testing every five years with the option to collect the sample yourself. A National Lung Cancer Screening Program using low-dose CT for people with a significant smoking history began in July 2025. Cancer Council Australia's 13 11 20 line answers questions about any of them.

## Fields

- Kind: Collection
- Last checked: 2026-09-17
- Tags: free; public
- URL: https://www.health.gov.au/our-work/national-bowel-cancer-screening-program
- Holds: The National Bowel Cancer Screening Program (free home kit every two years), BreastScreen Australia (free mammograms) and the National Cervical Screening Program (HPV test every five years, with self-collection), plus a national lung cancer screening program that started in 2025.

## Sources

- Australia's national cancer screening programs: https://www.health.gov.au/our-work/national-bowel-cancer-screening-program
- BreastScreen Australia: https://www.health.gov.au/our-work/breastscreen-australia-program
- National Cervical Screening Program: https://www.health.gov.au/our-work/national-cervical-screening-program

## Connected records

- collections: [CDC National Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection Program](https://onco.cc/collections/cdc-nbccedp/), [Ireland's National Screening Service](https://onco.cc/collections/ireland-national-screening-service/), [NHS cancer screening programmes](https://onco.cc/collections/nhs-cancer-screening-programmes/), [Time to Screen (New Zealand national screening)](https://onco.cc/collections/nz-time-to-screen/)
- cancers: [Breast cancer (all types)](https://onco.cc/cancers/breast-cancer/), [Cervical cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/cervical/), [Colorectal cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/colorectal/), [Non-small-cell lung cancer](https://onco.cc/cancers/nsclc/)
- technologies: [Colorectal cancer screening (colonoscopy, FIT, stool DNA, blood)](https://onco.cc/technologies/colorectal-screening/), [Low-dose CT lung screening](https://onco.cc/technologies/low-dose-ct-screening/), [Mammography & tomosynthesis](https://onco.cc/technologies/mammography/)

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