CentraState - Healthy Directions

Spring 2016

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CentraState Medical Center 901 W Main St Freehold, NJ 07728 Read Healthy Directions online at www.centrastate.com/publications. Subscribe to our free health e-newsletter by scanning the QR code with your smartphone or visiting www.centrastate.com/enews. CentraState Briefs Health Screenings at CentraState Registration is required for all screenings. To register, go to www.centrastate.com/events or call the Star and Barry Tobias Health Awareness Center, Monday-Friday, 8:30 a.m.–4 p.m., at 732-308-0570. ORAL CANCER SCREENING Wednesday, April 27, 2016, 3-5 p.m. CentraState Medical Center, Star and Barry Tobias Ambulatory Campus, Health Awareness Center, Suite 100, 901 West Main St., Freehold, NJ 07728 Please join CentraState Medical Center in collaboration with the Ocean Monmouth Health Alliance to learn about oral cancer and receive a FREE cancer screening. For more information, visit www.oceanmonmouth.org. SKIN CANCER SCREENING Wednesday, May 18, 2016, 6 p.m. The Statesir Cancer Center, Donna O'Donnell, RN Medical Arts Building, 901 West Main St., Freehold, NJ 07728 A skin cancer screening is a noninvasive exam that is quick but vitally important. When detected early, skin cancer has a cure rate of 99 percent. PROSTATE AND COLON CANCER SCREENING Wednesday, June 15, 2016, 6 p.m. The Statesir Cancer Center, Donna O'Donnell, RN Medical Arts Building, 901 West Main St., Freehold, NJ 07728 This screening is for men 40 years and older who have not been screened for prostate cancer in the past. The screening will consist of a blood draw for your PSA level as well as a rectal exam. You will be given a collection kit to take home as a part of the colorectal screening. Instructions will be provided at the screening. It will be your responsibility to return the kit to the CentraState Outpatient Lab within one week after the screening. Ongoing Screenings LUNG SCREENINGS CentraState's screening program is open to former and current smokers who are age 55 and older and meet certain criteria, including having smoked for 30 pack years or more (one pack a day for 30 years, two packs a day for 15 years, etc.) who are currently still smoking or have quit within the past 15 years, with no symptoms of lung cancer or known pulmonary nodules. Patients need a prescription from their doctor. For more information, call Sharon Lorfing, RN, APN-C, nurse practitioner and lung cancer navigator at CentraState Medical Center, at 732-637-6365 or visit www.centrastate.com/ lungcancer. MOLESAFE SKIN SCREENINGS The Skin Cancer Program at CentraState offers a highly trained medical team of dermatologists and surgeons who specialize in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of skin cancer, as well as the screening service MoleSafe: a skin documentation system that uses total body photography. For more information about MoleSafe and the Skin Cancer Program at CentraState, call 855-411-CANCER (855-411-2262). To make an appointment for MoleSafe, call 877-MOLESAFE (877-665-3723). PSA

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