In 2000, Ohio Partners for Cancer Control was formed to reduce the cancer burden in Ohio through a collaborative and comprehensive approach. The Ohio Cancer Plan: 2010 was published in 2003 to serve as a blueprint for the state's cancer prevention and control activities and to identify goals, objectives, and strategies in the following priority areas: primary prevention, early detection, treatment and care, research and clinical trials, palliation and quality of life, and data and surveillance.

The partnership has made significant progress since 2003, fully or partially achieving 83% of the objectives outlined in Ohio Cancer Plan: 2010. Three years after the original publication of the plan, Ohio Partners for Cancer Control is pleased to present The Ohio Cancer Plan: 2010, Our Call to Action. This updated cancer plan reports on our partnership's progress to date and includes revised objectives and strategies that will better equip us to meet our 2010 goals.

The Ohio Cancer Plan: 2010, Our Call to Action increases emphasis on Ohio's ever-growing population of cancer survivors by featuring a new goal related to cancer survivorship. This addition to the plan highlights Ohio's need to better serve and engage those living through and beyond cancer. In their honor, The Ohio Cancer Plan: 2010, Our Call to Action features photographs and stories from Ohio cancer survivors, several of whom are members of Ohio Partners for Cancer Control for whom cancer is a personal, as well as a professional, issue.

The updated publication also includes information on efforts to eliminate health disparities and on actions any Ohio citizen can take to help prevent and control cancer.