Name: Buddy Check 12: Mom catches breast cancer early enough to avoid chemotherapy
Uploaded: 12/12/2019 11:45:03 PM
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Description: A local mom and daughter are buddies. With Buddy Check 12, her mom caught her breast cancer early enough so that she didn't need chemotherapy.

Buddy Check 12: Mom catches breast cancer early enough to avoid chemotherapy

A local mom and daughter are buddies. With Buddy Check 12, her mom caught her breast cancer early enough so that she didn't need chemotherapy.

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Subaru of Jacksonville helps Jacksonville woman battle cancer with a check and key lime pie

Meet Jennifer Taylor. She's battling against cancer. She sat down with On Your Side's Jeannie Blaylock, but what she didn't know is we had a surprise for her.

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Firefighter catches her breast cancer so early she didn't even need chemo

Sue Horton is a paramedic with JFRD. She says a mammogram saved her life and spared her from chemotherapy.

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Jacksonville firefighter catches breast cancer early with the help of a mammogram

Sue Horton is a paramedic with JFRD. She says a mammogram saved her life and spared her from chemotherapy.

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Here's how you can help us buy the Buddy Bus!

First Coast News and Baptist/MD Anderson Cancer Center are teaming up to purchase a mobile mammography unit that will serve six local counties. We call it the Buddy Bus.

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Rhino Shield steps up to help buy the Buddy Bus, save lives

Rhino Shield announced its new way to help women get mammograms for early breast cancer detection.

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Rhino Shield announces gift to Buddy Bus fundraiser

Rhino Shield announces its new way to help women get mammograms.

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Husband of breast cancer survivor running 312 miles in three days

Marc Burget kicked off his 312-mile run to raise money to help women fighting breast cancer.

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Buddy Check 12: Mammogram detects Stage 3 breast cancer from lump she 'could not feel'

If she hadn't gotten her mammogram, "I would not have known."

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BUDDY CHECK 12: First Coast comedian raises funds for Buddy Bus with personal comedy skit

Jane Schlager, a military veteran, believes humor is more than good medicine.

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Buddy Check 12: Woman diagnosed with Stage 3 breast cancer from lump she couldn't feel

Kim starts chemotherapy Friday. She says the Buddy Check 12 system and going to get a mammogram helped her detect a lump in her breast, one that she couldn't feel.

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'I thought, my God!' This Jacksonville woman did one thing to avoid chemotherapy

Sisters share their very different decisions about their breast cancer journeys.

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BUDDY CHECK | Woman diagnosed with Stage 4 advanced breast cancer warns 'Don't skip your mammogram!'

A woman warns "Don't skip your mammograms," after she is diagnosed with Stage 4 advanced breast cancer.

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Here's what one Jacksonville mom did after she felt a hard knot like a bead in her breast

Jacksonville mom Wendy Boykin says, "It felt different." She was smart. She did Buddy Check and her self exams saved her life.

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HE wrote a song about HIS breast cancer journey

Al Stallings composed a song about Buddy Check 12 because he says it helped save his life and his son's life. Both men have beaten breast cancer.

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Local man wrote a song about HIS breast cancer journey

Al Stallings composed a song about Buddy Check 12 because he says it helped save his life and his son's life. Both men have beaten breast cancer.

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