{"id":198495,"date":"2015-04-07T04:00:58","date_gmt":"2015-04-06T18:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=198495"},"modified":"2015-04-07T04:00:58","modified_gmt":"2015-04-06T18:00:58","slug":"ccas-oral-cancer-road-waving-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/ccas-oral-cancer-road-waving-a-success\/","title":{"rendered":"CCA\u2019s Oral Cancer road-waving a success"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_198496\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-198496\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Oral.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-198496\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Oral-300x181.jpg\" alt=\"Commonwealth Cancer Association and Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. Division of Public Health staff and two volunteers hold up a streamer promoting oral cancer awareness during CCA\u2019s roadside-waving activity yesterday along Beach Road in Oleai. (Jayson Camacho)\" width=\"300\" height=\"181\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-198496\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Commonwealth Cancer Association and Commonwealth Healthcare Corp. Division of Public Health staff and two volunteers hold up a streamer promoting oral cancer awareness during CCA\u2019s roadside-waving activity yesterday along Beach Road in Oleai. (Jayson Camacho)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Commonwealth Cancer Association, community members, and partners yesterday enjoyed promoting oral cancer awareness after receiving enthusiastic support from the community in the form of motorists honking their cars horns during a roadside-waving activity yesterday along Beach Road in Oleai.<\/p>\n<p>The reception was enough for CCA program manager Juan L. Babauta to declare yesterday\u2019s campaign a success.<\/p>\n<p>Babauta said that it was the third time that a roadside waving was done in celebration of Oral Cancer Awareness Month, which all leads up to CCA\u2019s signature fund-raising event, the Marianas March Against Cancer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe roadside waving is part of CCA and our partners\u2019 efforts to help spread awareness of the effects of chewing tobacco and betel nut as it is the major cause of oral cancer,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Lt. Gov. Ralph Torres, who was present at the roadside waving with his family members, said that they were there to support Oral Cancer Awareness Month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI ask the community for their support and to be strong to stop oral cancer,\u201d Torres said.<\/p>\n<p>During the entire month of April, CCA will be hosting presentations and visiting schools to address the concerns and raise awareness on oral cancer. There will also be a forum on oral cancer that includes stakeholders and partners.<\/p>\n<p>Mami Ikeda, a huge supporter for awareness on oral cancer, was present. She carried a picture of her brother Kazu, who passed away from the deadly disease, while waving at people.<\/p>\n<p>Ikeda said that she reached out to all of Kazu\u2019s friends on Facebook to pass by during the roadside waving and rev up their engines in support of oral cancer awareness month.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is good. The awareness is spreading and trying to help us so I feel that the awareness is really getting out there,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Commonwealth Cancer Association, community members, and partners yesterday enjoyed promoting oral cancer awareness after receiving&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":198496,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[160,270,3095,1550],"class_list":["post-198495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-beach-road","tag-cca","tag-mami-ikeda","tag-ralph-torres"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/198496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}