Overview

• Bahia’s health department is offering 40,000 free mammograms for women 40 to 69, with online booking, mobile units in Salvador handling up to 154 exams a day, services at 24 regional polyclinics, and mutirões set for October 11 and 25.
• Fortaleza’s Associação Nossa Casa opened registration for 500 free exams for vulnerable women 40 and older, selecting applicants by social and medical risk, notifying via WhatsApp within up to five business days, and requiring a doctor’s order on the exam day.
• Sesc in Natal released 1,600 slots in October—800 preventive exams for women 25–64 and 800 mammograms for ages 50–69—with scheduling beginning Oct. 1 at 6 p.m. on the mobile unit and expanding Oct. 2 to Sesc centers and phone booking.
• Natal’s Grupo Reviver mobile unit is circulating multiple sites through October to provide free mammograms to women over 40 with ID, SUS card and proof of residence, and no medical request is required.
• Local data underpin the expansion as Cican reported 269 breast cancer cases in 2024 with 25% in women 40–50, while Hospital Aristides Maltez adds stereotactic biopsies and exam mutirões and the Meu Combustível Salva project reports about 7,000 mammograms since 2021 across four northeastern states.