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Results 2014
What an amazing year!!!
Thanks to a very generous and supportive community, $170,000-plus was donated to Mayo Clinic-Jacksonville & Baptist Medical Center Beaches.
See our video for additional information.

New & Noteworthy
Check out our Press Room for a recent interview on WBOB Talk Radio with Mayo and Baptist doctors.

The Details
(Where is the money going?)
The Pink Ribbon Golf Classic is an all volunteer, non-profit event that was created to raise funds for local breast cancer research and related services at Baptist Medical Center Beaches and Mayo Clinic-Jacksonville. In our community alone, over 500 women and men will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year. As volunteers, we are working to support both of these fine institutions with a goal of raising at least $150,000 in 2014.

By reaching this goal we will be able to help support Mayo's BEAUTY (Breast Cancer Genome-Guided Therapy) study. BEAUTY is a groundbreaking national genetic clinical trial designed to help researchers and physicians better understand the role genetics play in breast cancer treatment so they can develop more personalized therapies for breast cancer patients now and in the future. Specifically, our support will benefit some of the Jacksonville area women participating in the study.

This year's donation to Baptist Medical Center Beaches will help with the purchase of a new, state-of-the-art Doppler ultrasound for the operating room and new MRI/mammogram gowns as well as helping cover medical costs incurred by breast cancer patients who are not covered by health insurance.

Finally, we also hope to underwrite an educational forum at Baptist Hospital for 2015. This forum will include guest speaker, Annie Parker, who is featured in an upcoming film, "Decoding Annie Parker." She is a 3-time cancer survivor who worked with geneticist Mary-Claire King in discovering the BRCA gene mutation, which was a truly significant discovery in the world of fighting breast cancer.

Over the past seven years our contributions to Baptist Medical Center Beaches have helped purchase a new x-ray pathology unit, known as a Faxitron, that will make diagnoses even faster and more accurate, and a digital mammography unit, hire a Breast Cancer Care Coordinator, and establish the Support & Survivorship Program at Hill Breast Center. Contibutions to Mayo Clinic-Jacksonville have helped purchase the biopsy system for the digital breast tomosynthesis, also referred to as tomo or DBT, that allows radiologists to locate and accurately target regions of interest for biopsy and we have helped support the work of Edith A. Perez, M.D., E. Aubrey Thompson, Ph.D., and their team of breast cancer researchers in the Mayo Clinic Breast Cancer Translational Genomics Program here in Jacksonville. They have developed an analytical infrastructure that has positioned Mayo Clinic as one of the world leaders in breast cancer genomics.

Administrators at both Baptist Medical Center Beaches and Mayo Clinic-Jacksonville have emphasized the importance of this financial support, as this type of local commitment also helps them attract and retain medical talent. As an all-volunteer organization, we operate as a 501(c)(3) under the Baptist Health Foundation umbrella.

Meet the 2014 Pink Ribbon Committee

 

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