If you are eligible for cancer screening in that year, you will receive a notice from the National Health Insurance Service. If you don't receive a notice, you can check it at the National Health Insurance Service (1577-1000).

You can find a cancer screening organization near you at your local public health center or the National Health Insurance Service (1577-1000).
Alternatively, you can use the Need app for more information, including a map and list of screenings.

Within 15 days of your screening, you will receive a notification of your results.
You can also pull up your screening results in the Need app to collect your last 10 years of screening results.

Medical benefit recipients and health insurance enrollees who fall into the bottom 50% of the insurance premium threshold are eligible for free cancer screenings provided by the National Cancer Screening Program, with the cost of the screening covered by the government.

The screening frequency and age for the six major cancers covered by the National Cancer Screening Program are as follows.

1. stomach cancer: men and women over 40 years old
2. liver cancer: men and women aged 40 years and older who are at high risk of developing liver cancer
3. colorectal cancer: men and women age 50 and older
4. breast cancer: women age 40 and older
5. cervical cancer: Women 20 years of age and older
6. lung cancer: men and women ages 54 to 74 who are at high risk for lung cancer.

According to the International Agency for Research on Cancer, a division of the World Health Organization (WHO), and the American Cancer Society, the causes of cancer include smoking, chronic infections, food, occupation, heredity, reproductive factors and hormones, alcohol, environmental pollution, and radiation.
In addition, the six most common causes of cancer, which account for two-thirds of cancer cases in Korea, are as follows
1. stomach cancer: diet (salty, fried, nitrates, etc.), Helicobacter pylori
2. lung cancer: smoking, occupational exposure (arsenic, asbestos, etc.), air pollution
3. liver cancer: hepatitis viruses (hepatitis B, C), cirrhosis, aflatoxins
4. colon cancer: genetic factors, high-fat diet, low fiber intake
5. breast cancer: genetic factors, high-fat diet, female hormones, obesity
6. cervical cancer: human papillomavirus (HPV), sexual intercourse.

Even if you are not eligible for cancer screening, you can receive a state-subsidized general health checkup at least once every two years (once a year for those who do not work in an office setting) if you are
- Comporate enrollee
- Local enrollee who are heads of households
- Local enrollee age 20 or older- Dependents age 20 or older
- Heads of household and household members aged 20 to 64 who receive medical benefits

National health checkups are divided into general health checkups, life transition health checkups, cancer checkups, and infant and child checkups.

If you are not eligible for cancer screening, you may only receive a general health checkup.
The general health screening checks for obesity, dyslipidemia, hypertension, and diabetes. The cancer screening checks are organized to detect the six major cancers (stomach, colon, cervical, breast, liver, and lung) at an early stage.

Even if you are not eligible for cancer screening, you are eligible for a government-subsidized general health checkup at least once every two years (once a year for non-office workers) if you are:
- Comporate enrollee
- Local enrollee who are heads of households
- Local enrollee age 20 or older
- Dependents age 20 or older
- Heads of household and household members aged 20 to 64 who receive medical benefits