The MCC membership has been a vital player in leading collaborative work necessary to achieve the goals and objectives outlined in the Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan for Michigan, 2009-2015. 

If MCC member organizations and key partner organizations commit to implementing various cancer control strategies across the cancer care continuum, then collective efforts will undoubtedly make a significant impact on cancer morbidity and mortality at a much faster rate.

A summary of the cancer control continuum, adapted in the graphic below, was provided several years ago by the National Cancer Institute (NCI) as a simplified framework on which to view plans, progress, and priorities.  More recently, NCI outlined in more detail opportunities to optimize cancer control on multiple levels of the cancer care continuum, taking into account the interactions between types and processes of care, population, and patient outcomes.

In an effort to assist member organizations with identifying opportunities for implementation most appropriate for them, we have identified broad and cross-cutting areas of intervention and indexed them according to MCC member organizational category. To see what your organization can do in the fight against cancer, please click on the link below that most closely represents your type of organization.

Please note: The hyperlinks that appear in the documents will take you to related evidence-based strategies/interventions intended to support your organization’s cancer prevention and control initiatives.

• Community-based health care delivery system or practice with a cancer program (available as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file)*

• Health care insurance plan (available as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file)*

• Health education/health research and evaluation organization (available as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file)*

• Public health organization (available as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file)*

• Organization representing or serving hard-to-reach and/or special populations (available as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file)*

• Trade/professional/advocacy organization (available as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file)*

• University-based health care delivery system with a cancer program (Adobe Acrobat PDF file)*

For more detailed recommendations and specific evidence-based strategies, please refer to the full Strategic Plan at Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan for Michigan, 2009–2015.  General areas of implementation were chosen to be aligned with the 2011 National Comprehensive Cancer Control Program Priorities.

*Please Note: You will need Adobe Acrobat Reader to open, view and print this file once it has been downloaded. If you need a free copy of Adobe Acrobat Reader, please click here.

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last updated: 06/13/12

About the photograph: The image of the joined hands shown on the home page of our site and also on this page is the work of photographer Rhoda Baer and is used with the permission of the National Cancer Institute.