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The Enright Melanoma Foundation (formerly known as the Joseph E. Enright Foundation) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to raise sun safety awareness in New Jersey and to help prevent melanoma through education and early detection.
Accomplishments:
- Education - Taught prevention, early detection and care of melanoma cancers through workshops and lectures across New Jersey to over 3,000 individuals and camps in 2012
- Materials: Provided over 3,000 packages of sunscreen at community pools in 2012
- Outreach: Sponsored lectures by some of New Jersey’s most distinguished scholars on skin cancers
- Got Skin? Then you need to know that:
- Melanoma is the most deadly form of skin cancer
- The lifetime risk of developing melanoma is 1 in 53
- Melanoma is the most common cancer among young adults, ages 25-29
- Melanoma is the 2nd most common cancer in adolescents & young adults, ages 15-29
- An estimated 68,130 men and women will be diagnosed with and 8,700 men and women will die of melanoma of the skin in 2010 (source: National Cancer Institute)
- Early detection dramatically increases the survival rate for patients with melanoma
- Protection from the sun is the best way to prevent melanoma
Contact Us
Enright Melanoma Foundation
P.O. Box 519
Summit, NJ 07902
Telephone: (908) 464-0277
Email: info@enrightmelanomafoundation.org
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P.O. Box 519
Summit, NJ 07902
Telephone: (908) 464-0277
Email: info@enrightmelanomafoundation.org
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