Letter from Jessica Whitney

CSP There for Those In Need

The Cancer Services Program of the Central Region serves individuals in Delaware, Otsego, Schoharie, Oneida, Herkimer and Madison counties.

We are a New York State grant funded program, which Bassett Healthcare holds the grant for. We help New York State residents who are uninsured or underinsured get free cancer screenings for breast, cervical and colorectal.

CSP wants to ensure that everyone has equal opportunity to be screened for breast, cervical and colorectal cancer regardless of the healthcare barriers they face.

By covering people who are not insured, everyone has an opportunity to prevent colon and cervical cancer through screening and to detect breast cancer early, when treatment results in lower rates of mortality.

Screening tests can prevent cervical and colorectal cancers by finding abnormal cells before they become cancer so that they can be removed. Screening tests for breast, cervical and colorectal cancers also find these cancers early, when treatment may work best.