Tag: Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey

  • Care to Walk for breast and ovarian cancer Oct. 15 in North Brunswick

    Care to Walk for breast and ovarian cancer Oct. 15 in North Brunswick

    The 19th annual North Brunswick Care to Walk/Run to honor those who have been affected by breast and ovarian cancer will be held from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Oct. 15 at the football field at North Brunswick Township High School, 98 Raider Road, North Brunswick. This year’s walk is in memory of Lynn…

  • Bike ride celebrates 10 years of helping women with breast cancer

    Bike ride celebrates 10 years of helping women with breast cancer

    SOUTH BRUNSWICK – A legion of family, friends, coworkers, healthcare professionals, breast cancer survivors and volunteers have come together to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars to educate and help uninsured and underinsured women receive early detection procedures for breast cancer over the past 10 years. “This was so important to her,” Arie Behar said…

  • Program to focus on hereditary risk of breast cancer

    Program to focus on hereditary risk of breast cancer

    “Could You Be at Risk for Hereditary Cancer?,” a free program focusing on inherited genetic mutations that raise the risk of certain cancers in men and women, will be held at 10:30 a.m. May 7 at Anshe Emeth Memorial Temple, 222 Livingston Ave., New Brunswick. Speakers will be Hetal Vig, genetic counselor at the Rutgers…

  • Winter gala will raise money for pediatric cancer

    Winter gala will raise money for pediatric cancer

    The Hugs for Brady Foundation will holds its 2017 winter gala, The Many Faces of Hugs for Brady, from 5:30-11 p.m. on March 4 at The Palace at Somerset Park, 333 Davidson Ave., Somerset. The gala raises money for those affected by childhood cancer. The Domotor family will receive the Ellen Gambatese Pediatric Cancer Volunteer…

  • Care to Walk has another successful run

    Care to Walk has another successful run

    NORTH BRUNSWICK – The 18th annual Care to Walk 5K Walk/Run succeeded once again in its mission of raising tens of thousands of dollars for breast and ovarian cancer research. Family, friends and faculty members of North Brunswick Township High School gathered on the school’s football field on Oct. 23 to honor survivors while remembering…

  • Breast/ovarian cancer walk to benefit Rutgers CINJ

    Breast/ovarian cancer walk to benefit Rutgers CINJ

    The Care to Walk/Run North Brunswick is an annual 5K event first held in 1999 to honor cancer survivors, remember those who lost their battles with the disease and raise awareness about how to reduce breast and ovarian cancer risk. Founded in 1998 by a group of women in North Brunswick who had personally dealt…