Wellness Before or After Cancer is Essential

Wellness Before or After Cancer is Essential

October has been a whirlwind! Everything is pink and our educators have been out every single day spreading the word about early detection and the risk factors for breast cancer. One of the risk factors being lack of exercise. It’s essential to get about 5 hours...
Shop Pink! Shop For a Cause!

Shop Pink! Shop For a Cause!

Hey there fashionistas! As you may already know, October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and there are lots of great shops donating to the cause—that’s right, you can look fabulous AND contribute to a very worthy cause. Stores like shopbop.com and...
Wellness Before or After Cancer is Essential

“A Crucial Catch” – The NFL Joins The Cause

“”A Crucial Catch” is The National Football League’s new campaign to raise breast cancer awareness during the month of October.  A game-time public service announcement by Fergie, lead singer of the Black Eyed Peas, will remind fans of the...
Wellness Before or After Cancer is Essential

Go Local, Go Pink!

J. Kings is a Long Island company supporting their community by servicing local chefs, cooks and caterers and doing over $41,000,000 in annual sales with local farms, bakers, meat companies and other vendors.  For the entire month of October, Breast Cancer Awareness...
Wellness Before or After Cancer is Essential

Breast Cancer Treatment Without Surgery

Recently I heard about a new phase ll clinical trial on a new breast cancer treatment. It’s called cryoablation, a process where the tumor is frozen to kill the abnormal cells. This may be an effective treatment for patients with invasive ductal breast cancer. Here at...
Education Saves Lives!

Education Saves Lives!

As I mentioned earlier, The Maurer Foundation is unique in where we are solely dedicated to educating people of all ages about breast health. I’ve had the amazing opportunity to train a new set of Peer Educators this week at Syosset High School through...
Nutrition Reduces Your Risk Of Breast Cancer?

Nutrition Reduces Your Risk Of Breast Cancer?

I had the opportunity to represent the Maurer Foundation at the United Way CFC Agency Fair and I found that most of the women who attended were shocked to learn that good nutrition can lower your risk of breast cancer.