The Joseph E. Enright Foundation is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating the community about melanoma and other skin cancers as well as working with medical professionals to prevent this deadly skin cancer.  Our programs focus on Compassion, Community and Charity by:

• teaching about the prevention, early detection and care of melanoma cancers through workshops and lectures across New Jersey
• sponsoring lectures by some of New Jersey’s pre-eminent scholars on skin cancers
• providing scholarships to exceptional students pursuing careers in health care

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 2^nd 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