The public health breast and cervical cancer program. Our role as physicians.

Through a federally funded breast and cervical cancer control program, women who have breast or cervical cancer should be identified at earlier stages of their disease. Working together, community physicians and local health departments can ensure that the highest quality breast and cervical cancer control services are available to all women in their communities. This public/private partnership will help ensure the survival of these crucial members of our families and communities--our mothers, grandmothers, wives, sisters, daughters, friends, and co-workers. For information about the location of participating local health departments, please call the Michigan Department of Public Health Mammogram Hotline at 1-800-922-MAMM (1-800-922-6266). For media materials or for more information about becoming involved as a provider of services for community breast and cervical cancer screening programs, call (517) 335-9161. All women are at risk of developing breast and cervical cancer. Please do what you can to encourage all women to obtain screening according to the schedule recommended by the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute. And please cooperate with your local health department when your community initiates this program. References available upon request.