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How-to conduct a self-exam
Early detection of breast cancer can improve survival rates and lessen the severity of treatment options. Routine mammograms are essential to catching signs of breast cancer early on but so can home-based breast exams. Over the years there has been some debate over the effectiveness of breast self-exams, or BSEs, is effective. Different breast cancer…
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Can breast cancer be prevented?
Oftentimes, individuals diagnosed with some form of cancer ask themselves and their physicians,“Could I have done something to prevent this?” Women who are concerned about breast cancer also may wonder if they can prevent this potentially deadly disease, wondering if there is a pill, a vitamin or another method to keeping the cancer at bay.…
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Did you know?
Breast cancer is a disease that affects thousands of people each year. According to Susan G. Komen for the Cure, 226,870 new cases of invasive breast cancer in women will be diagnosed this year (including new cases of primary breast cancer among survivors but not the recurrence of original breast cancer among survivors). There also…
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Exploring the different types of breast cancer
Breast cancer is a universal term to describe several different cancers that form in and around the breasts. Breast cancer types are generally categorized based on where the illness begins, most often in the ducts or lobules, the parts of the female anatomy responsible for producing breast milk. About 226,870 new cases of invasive breast…
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Improv benefit to aid breast-cancer research
Death By Improv, a central-Jersey based improv-comedy troupe performing locally since 2006, will present a benefit comedy show 8 p.m. Oct. 12 at the Main Street Theatre, 3018 Bordentown Ave., Parlin section of Sayreville. Proceeds will benefit the Breast Cancer Research Foundation. Tickets cost $5 each. For more information, email [email protected], call 732-586- 6917 or…
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Catholic Women to conduct Coat Drive
The Council of Catholic Women, Church of the Sacred Heart, 531 Washington Ave., South Amboy, will sponsor its annual Coat Drive Oct. 13 and 14. Coats may be dropped off at the front entrance of the church or in a bin across the street from the church in front of Memorial Hall. Merchandise will be…
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Parents pitch in to spruce up O.B.’s Grissom School
With parent involvement, children want to learn more, PTA president say BY ANGELA SANTORIELLO Staff Writer Painting and improving the Grissom Elementary School in Old Bridge was a community effort over the summer. Principal Tony Arico teamed with the PTA, the National Honor Society and district custodians in the effort. OLD BRIDGE — The Grissom…
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S. Amboy man faces charges
SAYREVILLE — Police charged a South Amboy man with burglary, theft and hindering his own apprehension in connection with a series of car burglaries that were reported on Sept. 26. At 1 a.m. Sept. 26, Sayreville police officers responded to a report of a man attempting to enter vehicles on Byrnes Lane East, near Main…
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Sayreville girl, 12, helps ‘Stomp the Monster’
Erin Galvin SAYREVILLE — Most children spend their summer days playing, relaxing and going on vacation, and in many cases, dreading the start of school. Erin Galvin is different. Erin, 12, spent the better portion of her summer training for a triathlon and raising about $800 for families affected by cancer. Erin, a seventh-grader at…
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