January 22, 2010
Screenings have been completed at Fuller, Cameron and Walsh Middle Schools.
If your child missed a screening due to illness or a late consent, there will be a make up screening at a later date. You will be contacted in early February.
We are currently contacting families at McAuliffe, St. Tarcisius and St. Bridget Schools to give everyone a chance to participate.
Students who have been to a screening are reporting that they had a good time, and felt comfortable with the screenings.
The movie tickets and the flash drives are a good incentive, but another small perk is the technology. Students can see the latest in the technology of 3D photography and actually get a 3D picture of their own face that they can edit on their new flash drive. SONIC does not save any pictures of students' faces.
This technology is being developed only in the SONIC Study, so we are seeing it here first! The researchers are very impressed by the new developments, just in the last year from the medical imaging professionals at Canfield Scientific.
The main incentive for parents is the ability to obtain the most up to date skin screening availible for their children. The SONIC team at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center examines every picture and evaluates the changes in the cells of each mole.