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Dr. Susan Love's Army of Women

Series: Living Well Show
From: Donna Descoteaux
Length: 00:28:45

Dr. Susan Love, author of Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book, now in its 5th Edition, shares with us the latest research and developments in breast cancer. She discusses risk factors, prevention, screening, alternative treatments, environmental factors and how stress can contribute to breast cancer. The latest figures suggest that one in eleven women will be stricken with breast cancer. Read the full description.

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Dr. Love take this extremely alarming figure as a call to action for needed research on human subjects (mice do not always give us what we need to know about women!) In response to this health crisis she started The Army of Women whose goals are:

  • To recruit one million healthy women of every age and ethnicity, including breast cancer survivors and women at high-risk for the disease, to partner with breast cancer researchers and directly participate in the research that will eradicate breast cancer once and for all.
  • To challenge the scientific community to expand its current focus to include breast cancer prevention research conducted on healthy women.

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Dr. Love take this extremely alarming figure as a call to action for needed research on human subjects (mice do not always give us what we need to know about women!) In response to this health crisis she started The Army of Women whose goals are:

  • To recruit one million healthy women of every age and ethnicity, including breast cancer survivors and women at high-risk for the disease, to partner with breast cancer researchers and directly participate in the research that will eradicate breast cancer once and for all.
  • To challenge the scientific community to expand its current focus to include breast cancer prevention research conducted on healthy women.

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