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Ontario Cervical Screening Program

The Ontario Cervical Screening Program (OCSP) is a province-wide screening program run by Ontario Health (Cancer Care Ontario). The program’s goal is to lower people’s chance of getting or dying from cervical cancer by increasing the number of eligible people with a cervix (including women, Two-Spirit people, transmasculine people and nonbinary people) who get screened regularly and who have timely and appropriate follow-up of abnormal results.

Getting regular cervical screening is important because it checks for types of human papillomavirus (HPV) that can sometimes cause cervical cancer. The cervical screening test also checks for cell changes in the cervix caused by these types of HPV, which could become cancer over time (called pre-cancers). Finding pre-cancers and treating them can help you avoid getting cervical cancer.

What We Do

The OCSP sends letters to eligible people to invite them for a cervical screening test, tell them their test results and next steps after the test, and remind them when to get screened again. Learn more about the Cervical Screening Letters.

The OCSP also gives doctors, nurse practitioners and midwives research-based guidelines and resources so they can give the best possible care to people getting cervical screening.

If someone does not have a doctor, nurse practitioner or midwife, they can use Health811 any time to find a clinic that does cervical screening tests:

To find Indigenous primary health care organizations, visit Indigenous Primary Health Care Council or Association of Family Health Teams of Ontario.