# IARC Cancer Screening in Five Continents (CanScreen5)

Source: https://onco.cc/collections/canscreen5/  
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## TL;DR

IARC's survey of how countries screen for breast, cervical and bowel cancer, one fact sheet per country and cancer.

## Summary

Each fact sheet states the reporting year and the source of its data (directly from the programme, or from a report such as the 2017 EU report), whether a screening policy is documented and as what (law, notification or recommendation), the year the programme started, which tests are offered at which ages and intervals, what is free, how people are invited, and performance indicators where the programme supplied them. The programme records here copy those fields from the fact sheets read on 4 November 2026.

## Fields

- Kind: Collection
- Last checked: 2026-11-04
- Also known as: CanScreen5
- URL: https://canscreen5.iarc.fr/
- Holds: Country fact sheets on breast, cervical and colorectal cancer screening programmes: organisation, policy, start year, tests, target ages and intervals, invitations, quality assurance and, where reported, performance indicators.

## Sources

- IARC CanScreen5: https://canscreen5.iarc.fr/

## Connected records

- terms: [Breast cancer screening programme in Argentina](https://onco.cc/terms/screening-arg-breast/), [Breast cancer screening programme in China](https://onco.cc/terms/screening-chn-breast/), [Breast cancer screening programme in Mexico](https://onco.cc/terms/screening-mex-breast/), [Breast cancer screening programme in Poland](https://onco.cc/terms/screening-pol-breast/), [Breast cancer screening programme in Portugal](https://onco.cc/terms/screening-prt-breast/), [Breast cancer screening programme in Turkey](https://onco.cc/terms/screening-tur-breast/), [Cervical cancer screening programme in Bangladesh](https://onco.cc/terms/screening-bgd-cervix/), [Cervical cancer screening programme in China](https://onco.cc/terms/screening-chn-cervix/), [Cervical cancer screening programme in Colombia](https://onco.cc/terms/screening-col-cervix/), [Cervical cancer screening programme in Cuba](https://onco.cc/terms/screening-cub-cervix/), [Cervical cancer screening programme in Finland](https://onco.cc/terms/screening-fin-cervix/), [Cervical cancer screening programme in Indonesia](https://onco.cc/terms/screening-idn-cervix/), [Cervical cancer screening programme in Myanmar](https://onco.cc/terms/screening-mmr-cervix/), [Cervical cancer screening programme in Norway](https://onco.cc/terms/screening-nor-cervix/), [Cervical cancer screening programme in Poland](https://onco.cc/terms/screening-pol-cervix/), [Cervical cancer screening programme in Romania](https://onco.cc/terms/screening-rou-cervix/), [Cervical cancer screening programme in Turkey](https://onco.cc/terms/screening-tur-cervix/), [Chile's national cervical cancer screening programme](https://onco.cc/terms/screening-chl-cervix/), [Colorectal cancer screening programme in Belgium](https://onco.cc/terms/screening-bel-colorectal/), [Colorectal cancer screening programme in Czechia](https://onco.cc/terms/screening-cze-colorectal/), [Colorectal cancer screening programme in Hungary](https://onco.cc/terms/screening-hun-colorectal/), [Colorectal cancer screening programme in Poland](https://onco.cc/terms/screening-pol-colorectal/), [Colorectal cancer screening programme in Thailand](https://onco.cc/terms/screening-tha-colorectal/), [Colorectal cancer screening programme in Turkey](https://onco.cc/terms/screening-tur-colorectal/), [National cancer screening programmes](https://onco.cc/terms/national-screening-programmes/)
- fronts: [Early Detection & Screening](https://onco.cc/fronts/early-detection/)

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