Save the ta-tas.

Don’t let cancer steal second base.

Check your boobies.

Women have all kinds of nicknames for our breasts. We at the Charleston Breast Center want to save all of your knockers, jugs, melons and girls. So whether you call them your cans, puppies or coconuts, we encourage you to check them yourself every month and have a mammogram every year after you turn 40 (even earlier if breast cancer runs in your family). If you can’t afford to get a mammogram, we even have programs to make these life saving scans available to you.

Many of you post quotes and sayings in your Facebook and Twitter status to bring awareness to certain causes. You may have even posted your bra color a few months ago to raise awareness for breast cancer prevention and treatment. We’d like to up the stakes a little. The Charleston Breast Center is having a fun little contest to raise breast cancer awareness. Here’s how you can join the fun:

1)      Post the following phrase in your Facebook status today through Thursday, March 25:  @Charleston Breast Center  YOUR FUNNY NAME FOR BREASTS

2)      Copy and paste this email into a Facebook message or email and send to 10 of your friends.

3)      Each person who participates who lives in South Carolina will be entered to win a $25 gift certificate for Bits of Lace, a lingerie store on King Street!

4)       The winner will be announced via Facebook and Twitter on March 26, 2010. You must be a fan of the Charleston Breast Center fan page on Facebook to win.

If you’re a Twitterer, join in the fun there too and tweet: your #bestbreastnames with @Positively_Pink in your tweet.

Need a little inspiration? Check out this video of some of the best nicknames women around Charleston came up with!

Whatever you call them, just get them checked!