The Garrett County Health Department Cancer Prevention, Education, Screening, and Treatment Program (CPEST) offers cancer screenings for skin & colorectal cancer AT NO COST to qualifying Garrett County Residents. The CPEST program provides and administers grants to local health departments and academic centers to reduce cancer mortality and cancer disparities in Maryland.

The Maryland Cigarette Restitution Fund (CRF) was established in 2000 by the Maryland General Assembly to reduce the cancer incidence and mortality in Maryland.  The legislation required the establishment of a local public health component to coordinate efforts in each jurisdiction.  The local public health component of the CRF is the Cancer Prevention, Education, Screening, and Treatment Program.