Love/Avon Army of Women

The Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation and the Avon Foundation, a global leader in breast cancer research, joined forces to launch the Love/Avon Army of Women on The Today Show in October, 2008. The mission of the Foundation, a 501 (c)(3) non-profit breast cancer organization, is to eradicate breast cancer and improve the quality of women’s health through innovative research, education, and advocacy.

The Foundation works to identify the barriers to research and to then create new solutions.

Heading the Love/Avon Army of Women is Dr. Susan Love, a distinguished breast surgeon, a trusted breast cancer authority, a best-selling author on breast cancer and women’s health, and the President of the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation.

The Avon Foundation, a 501(c)(3) public charity, has raised and awarded more than $525 million worldwide for access to care and finding a cure for breast cancer. Support is also being provided by Avon Products, Inc., the largest corporate supporter of the breast cancer cause, which will work through its US Avon Sales Representatives to recruit women coast-to-coast.

We at the Love/Avon Army of Women strongly believe that our organizations is truly unprecedented. We are enlisting healthy women to partner with researchers (our goal is ONE MILLION women) to move research from the lab to real women, and from investigating treatment and cure to seeking prevention by studying what happens before cancer occurs and what causes it. In short, we are inviting all women to be "one in a million" and help prevent breast cancer.

The Army of Women also serves an unmet need that few think about...but Dr. Love did! Currently there is no timely, efficient system for assisting researchers in securing the volunteers they need -- it can take up to 18 months -- and most researchers have access only to women with cancer, not healthy women. Or they do research without using human subjects. We are changing that paradigm and helping advance research to go "beyond a cure."

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