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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.

Be Part of Research is the UK's free service for finding trials near you; taking part in NHS trials costs nothing and expenses are often paid.

In the US, women with low income and no or little insurance can get free or low-cost breast and cervical screening through a CDC-funded programme in every state.

Gavi pays for HPV vaccine in lower-income countries so national programmes can give it to girls for free, where cervical cancer kills most.

In Ireland, BowelScreen, BreastCheck and CervicalCheck are free. You register once and get invited by age.

In the UK the NHS invites you to bowel, breast and cervical screening by age, free, and is rolling out lung screening for people who smoke or used to.

In England, tumour and inherited cancer gene testing is free on the NHS when the National Genomic Test Directory lists it for your cancer. Your hospital team orders it.

If you are on certain benefits or a low income in England, the NHS refunds your travel costs to hospital appointments, including cancer treatment.

The NHS gives the HPV vaccine free at school around age 12 to 13, and anyone who missed it can still get it free until they turn 25.

Anyone in England with a Jewish grandparent can order a free NHS saliva test for BRCA gene changes, which raise breast, ovarian, prostate and pancreatic cancer risk.

New Zealand's bowel, breast and cervical screening programmes are free for eligible people; Time to Screen is the one site that covers all three.

In the US, the Vaccines for Children program gives the HPV vaccine free to children through 18 who are on Medicaid, uninsured or underinsured.