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Breast Assured Foundation’s 2012 Spirit Of Service Award For Community Service

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(PRWEB) December 21, 2011

Breast Assured Foundation is proud to announce that Frys Foods Stores is the January 2012 Spirit Of Service award recipient for their determination to serving the wants of Tucsons girls by sponsoring mammography screenings at no expense to 34 local ladies in require.

About Frys Meals Retailers:

Frys Food Retailers is headquartered in Tolleson, Arizona. The company employs more than eighteen,300 Arizona residents. The 121 Frys Foodstuff Shops services much more than a single million households per week. Frys has been serving Arizonans with refreshing food at well-known lower prices considering that 1960. Frys Foods Shops is a proud member of the Kroger Co. based mostly in Cincinnati, Ohio. For a lot more info, check out the companys World wide web internet site at http://www.frysfood.com.

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Breast Assured Groundwork is a non-profit business founded to offer relief to females who want monetary help in acquiring required preventive treatment health solutions for screening and prognosis of breast most cancers. Allocations and incentives offered are targeted particularly towards individuals who absence adequate money or insurance coverage to pay out for their screenings. To understand far more about local community services offerings, involvement &amp outreach, make sure you go to Breast Assured at http://www.breastassuredfoundation.org.

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New York Voices Dedicate Chanukah Song to Raise Funds for Cancer Research, Treatment, and Care Through Pioneers For A Cure – Songs To Fight Cancer on iTunes and Amazon

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New York, NY (PRWEB) December 21, 2011

Pioneers For A Treatment – Songs To Combat Most cancers is happy to announce the iTunes and Amazon launch of the Chanukah traditional ‘S’Vivon’ by the New York Voices, a Grammy winning vocal group. New York Voices has selected the Dr. Allyson J. Ocean Analysis Fund – Weill Cornell Medical University to acquire proceeds from downloads of the song.

The track can be discovered on iTunes at http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/pioneers-for-a-treatment-svivon/id490179379

Donors can customize their donations at http://pioneersforacure.org/artist/new-york-voices/

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New York Voices is an American vocal music group. The group was shaped in 1987 from an Ithaca Faculty alumni group. The unique group consisted of Darmon Meader, Peter Eldridge, Kim Nazarian, Caprice Fox and Sara Krieger. They launched their initial, self-titled album on GRP Documents in 1989. They won a Grammy award for their 1996 collaboration with the Rely Basie Orchestra, Count Basie Orchestra with New York Voices Reside at Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild. The New York Voices are now a quartet, who, apart from performing, give jazz clinics at faculties and universities and individually have their possess solo careers. The New York Voices have to date launched seven studio albums, all blends of classical, pop, R&ampB, Brazilian and American jazz.

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Pioneers For A Treatment – Songs To Combat Most cancers is the greatest showcase of most cancers charities on the world wide web. Known as ‘[A] stellar design of artist-pushed grassroots philanthropy’ by National Geographic, the non-gain project documents public domain songs, reinterpreted and created accessible for donations of as little as $ 1.ninety nine. This treasure trove of about 100 songs has been recorded by dozens of artists from around the planet including Suzanne Vega, Ben E. King, Tom Chapin, Tom Verlaine, Matt White and David Broza. High-quality artist Mira Sasson has painted the Pioneer Portraits of the singers, which are created available as US Postage Stamps to combat most cancers. Proceeds from tune downloads are donated to artist-selected most cancers charities this sort of as the American Most cancers Modern society, St. Jude Children’s Hospital, the Breast Cancer Investigation Basis, and Susan G. Koman for the Treatment.

Please make contact with Pioneers For A Remedy for a lot more data, testimonials and other press requests.

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Lillie Shockney, AONN Co-Founder, Winner of the 2011 Amazing Nurse Award from Johnson & Johnson

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(PRWEB) December 21, 2011

On December eleven, 2011, Lillie D. Shockney, RN, BS, MAS, co-founder of AONN, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Oncology Navigation and Survivorship,, and administrative director of the Johns Hopkins Avon Groundwork Breast Center, was awarded the 2011 Amazing Nurse Award from Johnson &amp Johnson. This honor is not only a excellent personal and expert accomplishment for Lillie, but also a wonderful recognition of an individual so concerned in the growth of affected person navigation as a occupation. She is the author of thirteen guides, an internationally recognized speaker and expert on Breast Most cancers, and a cancer survivor.

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Throughout AONNs 2nd Yearly Navigation and Survivorship Convention in San Antonio, TX, Lillie shared her individual story of getting a survivor in the course of the inaugural Survivorship Keynote lecture. She moved absolutely everyone in the audience, recounting her journey, and inspired all to go the extra mile to offer the finest patient treatment. Lillies enthusiasm for optimal individual care is an inspiration to all healthcare specialists, her unique standpoint and commitment are two of the good reasons why she is so deserving of this honor, mentioned Sean T. Walsh, Govt Director of AONN.

To find out more about why Lillie Shockney is the winner of the 2011 Remarkable Nurse Award, visit the subsequent links.

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Breast Reduction Can Save Lives and Reduce Risk of Breast Cancer

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Marina Del Rey, CA (PRWEB) December 23, 2011

Women with overly big breasts, or macromastia, have an increased risk of breast cancer, claims Dr. Grant Stevens, a renowned board-qualified plastic surgeon and breast reduction surgeon at Marina Plastic Surgical procedure Associates. The cause is not clear, he claims, but it could be connected to weight problems, wherever breast cancer prices are statistically increased, or a delayed analysis of breast most cancers, which is a lot more frequent in significant-breasted women.

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In accordance to Men and women journal, comedian Wanda Sykes underwent breast most cancers surgical treatment in August after most cancers was learned as a consequence of her breast reduction surgical procedure earlier this calendar year.

During a September episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Present, Sykes told DeGeneres that when breast tissue that had been taken out throughout her surgery was routinely sent to the laboratory, ductal carcinoma in situ was detected.

“We have been very carefully watching the literature above the several years linking macromastia to breast most cancers,” Dr. Stevens mentioned. “In addition to the evident difficulties large breasts bring, these as back again strain, bra straps reducing into the shoulders and problems doing exercises, cancer is noticed far more usually in ladies with large breasts. Ms. Sykes encounter is a common illustration of the difficulty in diagnosing most cancers in huge-breasted ladies.”

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Dr. Stevens did not deal with Ms. Sykes, but he has had experience with related situations.

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“In addition, we find that girls with big breasts are also quite self-aware about them. We have completed a lot of breasts reductions, and the ladies are overwhelmingly thrilled with the liberty of a smaller breast dimension,” Dr. Stevens states.

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The risk of breast cancer really should be a purpose for significant-breasted girls to think about reduction surgery, said Dr. Stevens, founder of Marina Plastic Surgical procedure.

“There have been several research to review breast most cancers premiums following breast reduction surgical treatment. Figures do present a lower in breast cancer incidence in the breast reduction group,” Dr. Stevens claims. “Undoubtedly, there are other risk aspects for breast cancer, so we help an all-out assault on the illness by seeking for all factors.”

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