Why Did Wisconsin Develop a Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan?
Cancer is the second leading cause of death in Wisconsin. In 2003, almost 26,000 new cases of cancer were diagnosed and 10,800 people lost their lives to this disease. Even though residents of Wisconsin are still getting and dying from cancer, it is not the death sentence it once was. More than half of those who have cancer will survive and each year the number of cancer survivors continues to grow.

Wisconsin has an opportunity to look at the gaps between where we have succeeded and where we need to improve in cancer prevention and control. This plan represents over 200 diverse partners from all over the state coming together to develop a plan with an integrated and coordinated approach to reducing cancer incidence, morbidity, and mortality through prevention, early detection, treatment, rehabilitation, and palliation. The plan itself is not an end product but instead a guide for how to build a sustained effort to reduce the burden of cancer in Wisconsin. The Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan (WI CCC Plan) 2005-2010 will serve as a common framework for action in cancer prevention and control over the next several years. It will provide program leaders, policy makers and researchers with a carefully crafted vision of what needs to be done and the resources needed to reduce the burden of cancer on the people of Wisconsin.

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The Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan hopes to:

Provide a framework of what needs to be done and the resources needed to reduce the burden of cancer on the people of Wisconsin.

• Highlight important cancer issues for future prioritization: The scope of issues that cancer presents is daunting. The plan covers a wide range of important issues. Ideally, all plan strategies would be implemented to achieve all plan goals. In reality, resources are limited and additional prioritization will be necessary to guide the implementation efforts. In addition, partners and other stakeholders can use the plan to select priorities consistent with their missions.
• Set priorities for improvement: The WI CCC Plan priorities provide direction to ongoing and new efforts in cancer prevention and control. Priorities in the plan were developed for important cancer issues in Wisconsin using state specific data.
• Identify evidence-based strategies to achieve priorities: Effective strategies for prevention, screening and detection, treatment, quality of life, palliative care and data collection and reporting have been identified.  For strategies where information on effectiveness is limited, the recommendations of workgroup experts and professional organizations were used to select the appropriate strategies.  Strategies that are not supported by research evidence should be evaluated to determine their effectiveness in achieving objectives.  There is an opportunity to reduce the burden of cancer by doing more of what is already known to be effective.
• Bring interested partners together to work collaboratively toward shared goals: Reducing Wisconsin’s cancer burden may only be realized through integrated and coordinated efforts of partners statewide.  Collaboration, both in planning and implementation, will lead to more efficient use of limited resources while ensuring that mutually identified priorities are addressed.
• Identify cost-effective means to implement priorities.
• Use resources more efficiently: By integrating and coordinating efforts in order to reduce duplication and expand capacity. Target resources to the data-driven highest priorities.

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Who Should Use This Plan?

The Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan: 2005-2010 is a resource and a guide for those who are involved in planning, directing, implementing, evaluating programs or performing research in cancer control in Wisconsin.

• Healthcare Systems
• Media
• Minority and Underserved Populations
• Payers & Insurance
• Physicians & Healthcare Providers
• Professional Organizations
• Public Policy Advocates
• Universities and Researchers
• Wisconsin Residents

To accomplish our 2010 Goals, everyone will need to be involved, but not limited to:

• Business Owners & Employers
• Cancer Survivors
• Caregivers
• Community Based Organizations
• Consumers
• Educators
• Faith Based Organizations
• Government Agencies
• Pubic Health Departments

Appendix F contains a summary of what each group listed above can implement from the Wisconsin Comprehensive Cancer Control Plan.

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What Is Included in This Plan?

• Chapters: Dedicated to a topic on the continuum of cancer control including, Prevention, Screening and Detecion, Treatment, Quality of Life, Palliative Care and Data Collection and Reporting.
• Priorities: Listed as sub-topics in each chapter. They were developed by looking at a variety of cancer-related data specific to Wisconsin to show where the CCC Plan should focus. The priority represents the change needed in order to reduce the burden of cancer in Wisconsin.
• Rationale: Cancer-related data used to develop and justify priorities.
• Disparate Burden: Summary of cancer data specific to disparately affected or underserved populations.
• What Can Be Done: Introduces the strategies needed to accomplish the priority.
• Targets for Change: Represent the long-term outcome expected from the implementation of the strategies.