Tag: mammograms
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Health Matters: Screening Mammograms Can Detect Breast Cancer Early, When It’s Most Treatable
By Ashley M. Newman, MD Breast cancer is one of the most common types of cancer in women, and it is also one of the most detectable due in large part to screening mammograms. Mammograms can detect breast cancer at its earliest, most treatable stages, even when it is too small to be felt by…
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Amy Foundation Ride and Stride combines two efforts to fight breast cancer
The Amy Foundation Ride & Stride is scheduled for June 23 at South Brunswick High School, 750 Ridge Road, Monmouth Junction section of South Brunswick. The objective is to raise funds to help uninsured and underinsured women in Central New Jersey receive potentially lifesaving breast cancer screening mammograms. The ride segment of Ride & Stride…
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Amy Foundation Ride and Stride combines two efforts to fight breast cancer
The Amy Foundation has merged its two signature fundraising events – The Bike Ride for Amy and The Walk for Diane – into a single opportunity to help fight breast cancer. The new event – The Amy Foundation Ride & Stride – is scheduled for June 23 at South Brunswick High School, 750 Ridge Road,…
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Annual Walk for Diane marks decade of supporting early detection of breast cancer
The 10th Annual 5K (3.1 miles) Walk for Diane helps raise funds for women who are unable to afford procedures to detect breast cancer early, when it is most treatable, and receive potentially life-saving care. Sponsored by the North Brunswick-based Amy Feiman Behar Foundation for Cancer Prevention, Inc., the Walk for Diane starts at 9…
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Organization tries to save lives one pedal at a time
SOUTH BRUNSWICK – The 11th Annual Bike Ride for Amy on June 3 originates in South Brunswick and courses through Middlesex and Somerset counties for a good cause: to raise funds for early detection of breast cancer among uninsured and underinsured individuals in central New Jersey. The Bike Ride for Amy is sponsored by The…
