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Cancer screening

Last Updated November 1, 2024

Let's have a cancer screening!


Types of cancer screening in Yokohama City

Cancer is the most common cause of death in Japanese people, and it is said that it affects one in two people in a lifetime. Early detection and early treatment are most important for cancer cure, but most early cancers are asymptomatic, so they tend to think "I'm OK." "If you receive health check-up sooner…Let's take health check-up only when there are no subjective symptoms.

Target person

Person who lives in the city and meets the next age requirements

Age requirements by type of cancer

Contents of Yokohama-shi cancer screening
health check-up type Target person Costs
Colorectal cancer 40 years old or older Free of charge

Stomach cancer (endoscope)

50 years old or older 2,500 yen

Stomach cancer (X-ray)

Lung cancer 40 years old or older 680 yen
Cervical cancer (cytology) 20-29 years old, 61 years old or older (female)※ 1,360 yen

Cervical cancer (HPV testing alone)

30-60 years old (female)※ 2,000 yen

Breast cancer
(a)Or (b) selection system

40 years old or older (female) (a)Mammography examination 680 yen
(b)Mammography examination, visual examination 1,370 yen
Prostate cancer 50 years old or older (male) 1,000 yen

※The cervical cancer health check-up using the HPV test alone method for women aged 30 to 60 will be implemented from January 2025. Until then, continue to have your current cervical cancer health check-up (cytology). Information will be sent to those who are eligible.

Notes

  • If you are currently undergoing treatment, you may not be able to see a doctor, so please consult your doctor.
  • If you have symptoms in the health check-up area, please consult a medical institution immediately instead of health check-up.

How to receive cancer screening

1.Select a medical institution that will undergo Yokohama City Cancer Screening

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Please choose medical institution to consult from Yokohama-shi cancer screening site (outside site). Reservations may be required depending on the medical institution, so please check the web page etc.

2.Visit a medical institution

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Please consult a medical institution with your identity verification documents.

[Documents] Information on Yokohama Cancer Screening

List of types of cancer screening and conditions

Colorectal cancer

  • Number of consultations: Once a year
  • Target: 40 years old or older (male and female)
  • Inspection items: Interviews, fecal occult blood tests
  • Costs: Free of charge

Remarks

Free of charge (600 yen) for health check-up.

Stomach cancer (endoscope or X-ray)

  • Number of consultations: Once every two years
  • Target: 50 years old or older (male and female)
  • Inspection items: Interview, endoscopy or interview, chest x-ray examination
  • Costs: 2,500 yen

Notes

  • You cannot have both endoscopy and X-ray examinations in the same year.
  • Endoscope and X-ray examination cannot be alternately received in consecutive years.
  • Those who wish to have endoscopy
    1. Please be sure to bring your insurance card on the day of your consultation.
    2. A biopsy may be performed to collect mucous membranes in the middle of health check-up.
    3. This biopsy will be covered by insurance and will be charged separately.

Lung cancer

  • Number of consultations: Once a year
  • Target: 40 years old or older (male and female)
  • Inspection items: Interview, chest x-ray examination
  • Costs: 680 yen

Cervical cancer

  • Number of consultations: Once every two years
  • Target: 20 years old or older (female)
  • Inspection items: Interviews, neck cytology tests
  • Costs: 1,360 yen

Remarks

The HPV test alone method (30-60 years old) for cervical cancer health check-up will be introduced in January 2025. Until then, please continue to see your current cervical cancer health check-up. Information will be sent to those who are eligible.

Breast cancer

(a)Or (b) is the selection system.

  • Number of consultations: Once every two years
  • Target: 40 years old or older (female)
  • (a)Mammography inspection
    Inspection items: Interviews, mammography tests
    Costs: 680 yen
  • (b)Mammography examination + visual examination
    Inspection items: Interview, mammography examination + visual inspection
    Costs: 1,370 yen

Notes

  • A mammography examination is required.
  • Visual examination is optional.
  • Please note that you will not be able to have a visual examination after receiving mammography.
  • As of the shooting date, mammography takes two directions for those in their 40s and one direction for those over 50 years old.

Prostate cancer

  • Number of consultations: Once a year
  • Target: 50 years old or older (male)
  • Inspection items: Interviews, blood tests
  • Costs: 1,000 yen

Precautions for Cancer Screening

  • If a doctor determines that it is necessary and performs more detailed examinations as insurance medical treatment, it may be expensive in addition to the above amount. Please check with your medical institution for details.
  • If you receive a medical examination without an appropriate consultation interval (such as twice a year), it may not be treated as a cancer screening in Yokohama City, so it may cost different from the above amount.
  • Please make a reservation directly to the medical institution by telephone or other means. (There is no consultation ticket.)
  • If the result of health check-up requires a detailed examination, the detailed examination will be covered by insurance and will be charged separately.
  • There are advantages and disadvantages of cancer screening. For detailsJapan Cancer Society (outside site)Please check the following page.

Check the risk of cancer that is common in women

Check the virus (HPV) that causes cervical cancer (from January 2025)

Illustration of a woman

When you hear "cancer", it is often thought that it is a disease of the senior generation, but cervical cancer is common in young women, and the peak of cancer in their 30s and 40s. Yokohama City will introduce the first cervical cancer test (HPV test) recommended in Europe and the United States for the first time in Japan. Finding if you are infected with human papillomavirus (HPV), which causes cancer, and follow-up to those who are at risk can lead to more reliable early detection of cancer.

    Overview of the New Cervical Cancer health check-up
    Target age Consultation interval Contents
    30-60 years old Once every five years HPV Testing Only Act*
    20-29 years old, 61 years old or older Once every two years Cytology

    Subjects to the HPV Testing Only Act (*)

    Those who have not received a cervical cancer health check-up in Yokohama from April to the end of December 2024
    (Those who consulted between April 2024 and the end of December 2024 can consult in 2026.)

    Costs (co-payments) (*)

    2,000 yen

    The consultation is OK once every five years.

    If the results of the newly introduced HPV test are negative, the next consultation will be five years later, and the burden of consultation will be reduced compared to the previous two-year tests. If the result is positive, a test to check the condition of the cells will be performed (revisiting the hospital for the test is not required). Depending on the test results, it will be re-examined or detailed inspection one year later.

    Details of health check-up Cervical Cancer

    If you want to know more about cervical cancer health check-up, please visit the National Cancer Center (external site) page.

    ※The cervical cancer health check-up using the HPV test alone method for women aged 30 to 60 will be implemented from January 2025. Until then, continue to have your current cervical cancer health check-up (cytology). Information will be sent to those who are eligible.

    Check the risk of cancer genetics (from November 2024)

    For those who have a genetic breast cancer ovarian cancer syndrome (HBOC) in the family, we will subsidize the cost of testing to find out if they have a gene that is likely to cause cancer in the future.

    • Details of the grant
      Genetic Counseling: 70% Grant (up to 10,000 yen)
      Genetic testing: 70% Grant (up to 30,000 yen)
    • Target: Parents, children, and siblings who are HBOC (under 69 years old)

    Subsidies for testing costs for genetic breast cancer ovarian cancer syndrome (HBOC)

    Those who are exempt from expenses

    1. Persons aged 70 or older as of April 1, 2025 (birth date before April 1, 1955)
      Please present a proof of age (such as a health insurance card) at health check-up.
    2. Persons who are subject to the medical system for elder senior citizens
      Please present your ID card for the elderly medical care insured at health check-up.
    3. People in the social security Household
      Please present your "Holiday / Night Medical Request Certificate" at health check-up.
    4. Those who are covered by the support payment system for Japanese nationals remaining in China
      Please present your identification card at health check-up.
    5. Person of taxable household only for municipal tax prefectural tax exemption household or per capita rate in 2023 (based on income of all household members during 2022)
      Procedures are required before health check-up. Please contact your ward office, Health and Welfare Division Health Promotion Section.

    Notes

    • Fees cannot be exempted after receiving health check-up
    • Since colorectal cancer health check-up in 2024 is free, there is no need to apply for a tax exemption confirmation.

    Free coupon tickets eligible

    We carry out free cancer screening for people of a specific age (target person). Coupons are sent to those who are eligible.

    Cervical Cancer health check-up (female)

    Those who are 20 years old as of April 1, 2024

    • Date of birth: From April 2, 2003 to April 1, 2004
    • To eligible people Coupons were sent out in mid-June 2024.

    health check-up, Breast Cancer

    Those who are 40 years old as of April 1, 2024

    • Date of birth: April 2, 1983 to April 1, 1984 (1984)
    • To eligible people Coupons were sent out in mid-June 2024.

    65 years old

    Those who are 65 years old as of April 1, 2024

    • Date of birth: April 2, 1958 to April 1, 1959 (1959)
    • To eligible people Coupons were sent out in September 2024

    You can check the status of cancer screening with your My Number Card.

    Mina

    If you have a My Number Card and have registered for the use of the minor portal, you can view the status of Yokohama City Cancer Screening you have received at the minor portal.
    Minor Portal My Information Page (External Site)

    • It will take several months after the consultation for each health check-up to be reflected in the minor portal.
    • It can be viewed from information received after 2022 (Reiwa 4).
    • The browsing period is 5 years from the year you received a cancer screening.

    Types and items of cancer screening that can be viewed

    Types of cancer screening that can be viewed

    • Colorectal cancer health check-up
    • Stomach cancer health check-up (endoscope or X-ray)
    • Lung Cancer health check-up
    • Cervical Cancer health check-up
    • Breast Cancer health check-up

    Items that can be viewed

    • Year of consultation (AD)
    • Date of consultation (date)
    • Age (age) at the time of consultation
    • Name of medical institution
    • Method of consultation (1: individual, 2: group)
    • Presence or absence of detailed inspection (1: not required for detailed inspection, 2: required for detailed inspection (suspection of XX), 9: inability to judge)

    Contact information

    Yokohama-shi Kenshin dial

    • Reception hours: From 8:30 to 17:15 (excluding Sunday, holidays, and the year-end and New Year holidays)
    • Telephone:045-664-2606
    • Fax: 045-664-3851

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    Inquiries to this page

    Yokohama-shi Kenshin dial

    Telephone: 045-664-2606

    Telephone: 045-664-2606

    Fax: 045-664-3851

    Email address: ir-kenshin@city.yokohama.lg.jp

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