Understand your screening options in Ontario.

Explore routine cancer and preventive screening, what each test involves, and how to access it — including if you don't have a family doctor.

Explore my screening optionsI don't have a family doctor

Screening is for people without symptoms. New or concerning symptoms need assessment, not a screening test. Why this matters.

Screening guide

Which screening topics may apply to me?

Five short steps. The result lists topics and Ontario access routes that match your answers — it does not diagnose, confirm eligibility, or tell you what is due.

1. Do you have any new or concerning symptoms right now?

For example a new lump, unexplained bleeding, pain, weight loss or a change in bowel habit. Screening is for people without symptoms, so this comes first.

Whole years only. This guide covers adults 18 to 110.

3. Do you currently have a family doctor or nurse practitioner?

If not, results include Ontario access routes.

4. Which of these do you have?

Screening follows the organs a person has. "Not sure" is fine — results stay conditional rather than guessing.

Breast tissue
A cervix

A hysterectomy does not always remove the cervix; choose Not sure if unsure.

A prostate
5. History that changes the guidance

Only what changes the result. These questions apply at any age.

IBS is not the same as inflammatory bowel disease (Crohn/colitis).

Have you been told you or your family may have an inherited colorectal cancer syndrome (such as Lynch syndrome or FAP)?
Have you smoked commercial tobacco every day for at least 20 years in total?

Cigarettes, cigars, loose tobacco, pipes or bidi/beedi. The 20 years do not need to be consecutive. Vaping, cannabis, chewing tobacco or second-hand smoke alone do not meet this program criterion.

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Seven screening topics

Each page explains who the routine guidance is for, who needs a different pathway, how to access it in Ontario, and the benefits and limitations. PSA is cancer screening but an individual discussion rather than an organized program; AAA is an organized provincial program; bone health is individualized fracture-risk assessment.

Get care

No family doctor? You can still access screening.

Several Ontario programs accept self-referral or offer access through Health811, and Health Care Connect can help you find a provider. Breast screening self-referral: 1-800-668-9304. FIT kit access for average-risk adults 45–74: Health811 at 811. Help finding a doctor: Health Care Connect 1-888-579-6707.

See all access routes

Official sources

Where this information comes from

Each topic page lists its specific sources and the date they were checked. See About for how content is developed and its limitations.