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Thank you to our Prevention Institute attendees!
We had a wonderful time learning from and sharing information with you about your tobacco prevention and healthy food policies. If you didn't hand in an evaluation, please send your feedback to katie@ncpreventionpartners.org - it will help make future Institutes even better!
Mark you calendars for our Spring Institute: March 24-25, 2009, Wilmington.
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NCPP speaks to NC Vascular Nurses Association
NC Prevention Partners' staff Dr. Melva Fager Okun and Dr. Karen Clark presented at the Annual Meeting of the NC Vascular Nurses
Association at Alamance Regional Medical Center. Drs. Okun
and Clark spoke about our new initiative to assure that all hospital patients and employees are encouraged and given help to quit tobacco. This initiative is supported by The Duke
Endowment in partnership with the NC Hospital Association. To hear more about this initiative, please email melva@ncpreventionpartners.org.
Photo (above): Drs. Okun and Clark with Emma Lawson, RN, RVT, current President of the NC Vascular Nurses Association.
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Nicotine may promote tumor growth
"Nicotine, whether absorbed by smoking cigarettes or inhaling second-hand smoke, may promote tumor growth and the spread of breast cancer," according to a study published in the Oct. 15 issue of Cancer Research.
Read the study abstract online.
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