WHO 13 NEWS - Buddy Check 13 is a campaign that WHO 13 started a year ago. A monthly reminder to call your friend, do a self-breast exam, and schedule your annual mammogram.

This Breast Cancer Awareness Month, one viewer is grateful for the lifesaving reminder.

It’s a call to action to everyone.

"It's something that I never, ever would have imagined. Can't happen to me," Casey Sigler, of Ankeny, said.

Because cancer can happen to anyone. The Iowa Cancer Registry estimates breast cancer will happen to nearly 3,000 Iowans this year.

"That public service announcement, it seems so silly to say, it saved my life," Sigler said.

Sigler saw the announcement just weeks after her 41st birthday, and followed the advice.

"And I was just lying in bed and put my right arm up," Sigler recalled. "M

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