The Love/Avon Army of Women: A Revolutionary On-line Resource to Accelerate Research |
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| Air date: | Tuesday, July 21, 2009, 9:00:00 AM Time displayed is Eastern Time, Washington DC Local |
| Category: | Special |
| Description: | The Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation and the Avon Foundation for Women have formed a partnership to discover ways to prevent breast cancer. The two foundations formed the Army of Women, a program with a goal of getting one million to sign up to help advance breast cancer research. Dr. Susan Love will speak about this program and how it can benefit research.
Dr. Susan Love’s goal for the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation is to eradicate breast cancer within our lifetime. She is known worldwide as one of the founding mothers of the breast cancer advocacy movement and sits on the Boards of the National Breast Cancer Coalition, and the Medical Advisory Board of Young Survival Coalition. She is currently the President and Medical Director of the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation, and founder and board member of Windy Hill Medical, a breast cancer prevention company. www.planning.cancer.gov |
| Author: | Sponsored by the Office of Science Planning and Assessment |
| Runtime: | 60 minutes |
| CIT File ID: | 15228 |
| CIT Live ID: | 7813 |
| Permanent link: | http://videocast.nih.gov/launch.asp?15228 |