 Everyone knows if you detect breast cancer early, your odds of beating it are better than 90 percent so it makes sense to do self exams. Over a decade ago, First Coast News' Jeannie Blaylock partnered with Baptist Health to create Buddy Check 12 -- designed to promote monthly breast self-examinations and to educate women on the importance of early detection. Watch Jeannie's Buddy Check 12 reports every 12th of the month on First Coast News and remind a buddy to self-check for breast cancer.
Call (904)202-CARE to our partner, Baptist Health, and we'll mail you the Buddy Check 12 kits with stickers for free.
Click here to sign up for Buddy Check 12 monthly e-mail reminders
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Hats off to our new Buddy Check 12 survivor, Sue Gilmore, and also a group of students who are working hard to help our Mammogram Hotline.
JACKSONVILLE, FL -- A local couple with a wild marriage story is confident they'll still be together to celebrate 50 years because of Buddy Check 12 and medical advances.
JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Every year, 'Riding into History' draws in thousands of folks, it's biker heaven, and over the years they've given $170,000 to Buddy Check 12.
Zumbajear Makes Hero Bras to Help M-Line 
Steinmart Helps Mammogram Hotline in Fashion
Breast Cancer Suvivor Gets Her Hero
Breast Cancer Survivor Needs Simple Help: a Mattress
Community Groups Receive Grants to Help Fight Breast Cancer
Everyone Invited This Saturday to Riding Into History
Fernandina Teacher Fights Cancer -- and Couches
M-Line Helps Save Local Mom's Life
View the Buddy Check 12 Archive
First Coast News is partnering with the local non-profit Susan G. Komen Foundation to raise Buddy Bucks to make sure every woman on the First Coast gets a mammogram, even if she can't afford one or she doesn't know where to turn. (They're the Race for the Cure folks.) The money will pay for the hotline and, the more funds we get, the more free mammograms we can offer through Komen grants to local facilities. Trained professionals at Komen will man the hotline to guide women to existing free mammogram programs and, if cancer is found, to surgery and treatment programs for the underserved. We will follow the women to make sure they get help.
Call the M-Line at 1-877-9-MY-MAMO. Compassionate, experienced healthcare Representatives are available to connect you with the information you need 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Each caller will receive either a follow-up call, or will be provided with referral information based on specific needs. Rest assured that all information remains confidential.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- Hats off to our new Buddy Check 12 survivor, Sue Gilmore, and also a group of students who are working hard to help our Mammogram Hotline.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A corrections officer and his team are working hard to help our M-Line. Click in to see their idea.
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. -- A Ponte Vedra business holds a pink party to decorate Hero Bras, and a Westside senior center donates $600 in Buddy Bucks all to help our Mammogram Hotline.
Steinmart Hosts Event to Benefit Breast Cancer
Callahan Elementary Goes Pink to Help M-Line
Trends Home Decor is Shopping Heaven for October
Downtown Breast Cancer Crusaders Make Hero Bras
Pink Ribbon Symposium this Weekend
Episcopal and Creekside Volleyball Women Go Pink
Come Move With Zumbajear Saturday for M-Line!
Steinmart Helps Mammogram Hotline in Fashion
View the M-Line Archive
 The 2009 Komen North Florida Race for the Cure was held on Saturday, October 17th, 2009 at Metropolitan Park in downtown Jacksonville. Next year's race will be held October 23, 2010.
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First Coast News Anchors Jeannie Blaylock and Donna Deegan
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