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Take control of your health with a cancer screening.

LGBTQIA+
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Get peace of mind from a cancer screening, which can detect cancer when it’s most treatable.

The LGBTQIA+ community lives with a higher risk of cancer, but screenings can help you live with so much more. Call your health care provider to schedule a cancer screening today. If you don’t have one, a nurse navigator can offer support and help schedule a cancer screening — even if you don’t have insurance.

Top Health Issues for LGBT Populations Information & Resource Kit, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, 2012.

Screenings

When you should be screened and how often:

  • Those 40 and older 1,2 assigned female at birth

    Screening or Vaccine: Mammogram

    How Often: Annually

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  • Women 21 and older 1,2 assigned female at birth

    Screening or Vaccine: Pelvic Exam

    How Often: Annually

  • Those 21 to 29 assigned female at birth

    Screening or Vaccine: Pap Test

    How Often: Every 3 years

  • Those 30 to 65 assigned female at birth

    Screening or Vaccine: Pap Test

    How Often: Every 3 years or every 5 years with HPV co-testing

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  • Those 45 and older 1,2 assigned male or female at birth

    Screening or Vaccine: FIT Test, Colonoscopy, or Cologuard

    How Often:

    • FIT Test: Annually
    • Colonoscopy: Every 10 years
    • Cologuard: Every 3 years
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Those 50 to 80 assigned female or male at birth who:

  • Smoke or have–smoked a pack a day for 20 or more years, or 2 packs a day for 10 or more years
  • Currently smoke or quit smoking within the past 15 years

Screening should be discontinued once a person:

  • Has not smoked for 15 years
  • Develops a health problem that substantially limits life expectancy or the ability or willingness to have curative lung surgery

Screening or Vaccine: Low-dose CT scan

How Often: Talk to your health care provider to determine if a lung cancer screening is recommended

Updated in April 2021

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  • Average Risk: Those 50 years and older 1,2 assigned male at birth

    High Risk: Those 45 years and older assigned male at birth, include African Americans and men who have a first-degree relative diagnosed with prostate cancer at an early age. Early age defined as less than 65 years.

    Higher Risk: Those 40 years and older assigned male at birth, – with more than one first-degree relative who has had prostate cancer at an early age (less than 65). 1,2

    Screening or Vaccine: Prostate-Specific Antigen (PSA) Test with or without a Digital Rectal Exam (DRE)

    How Often: Talk to your health care provider to determine if prostate screening is recommended

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Per Screening for Life guidelines dated July 2021.

1 Talk with your health care provider about individual screening recommendations.

2 Individuals with a family history of cancer may qualify for screening at an earlier age.

Cancer types

Learn more about each cancer and how to stay healthy.

Nurse Navigators

Delaware nurse navigators can help you get screened for cancer.

Whether you have insurance or not, Delaware nurse navigators can help you get screened for cancer and provide follow-up help when you get your results. Choose from the list below to call a nurse navigator directly, between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., or click the call request button to have a nurse navigator contact you.

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