Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan for Michigan, 2009-2015
Goals (2009 - 2015): Breast Cancer

Goal: Reduce the breast cancer death rate in Michigan.


Data
Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer among Michigan women.1 During 2007, 6,908 women in Michigan were newly diagnosed with breast cancer. During 2008, 1,471 Michigan women died of the disease.1


Breast Cancer Health Disparities Data

  • Incidence and mortality vary by age and by race.1

  • Incidence is highest among white women.1

  • Mortality is highest among racial minorities, partly due to a later stage at diagnosis.1

  • In 2007, 53.4 percent of newly diagnosed breast cancer cases among African Americans were found localized compared with 65.3 percent in white women.1

  • Even at the same localized stage of diagnosis, African American women show lower survival rates than white women.1,2


Strategic Plan:
Review the implementation objectives and strategies for this goal (available as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file).*

 

1 Michigan Cancer Surveillance Program. Michigan Department of Community Health (MDCH), Vital Records and Health Data Development Section. Available online at www.michigan.gov/mdch/ 0,1607,7-132-2944_5323---,00.html.

2 National Cancer Institute. SEER Cancer Statistics Review, 1975-2005. Available online at http://seer.cancer.gov/csr/1975_2005.

 

 

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last updated: 04/06/12