Susan M. Love, MD, MBA, Chief Visionary Officer and "Founding Mother" of Breast Cancer Advocacy and Research Dies
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LOS ANGELES, July 3, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Susan M. Love, MD, MBA, who led Dr. Susan Love Foundation for Breast Cancer Research since 1995, steering the Foundation through its innovative and life-changing research and advocacy programs, has died. She was 75.
Key Points:
- She was an early advocate of cancer surgery that conserves as much breast tissue as possible.
- A founder of the breast cancer advocacy movement in the early 1990's, she helped organize the National Breast Cancer Coalition (NBCC) .
- As Founder and Chief Visionary Officer of the Dr. Susan Love Foundation for Breast Cancer Research, Dr. Love built and oversaw an active research program centered on the cause and prevention of breast cancer.
- The Love Research Army, which she launched in 2008, creatively accelerated cancer research by partnering volunteers and scientists for clinical trials and cancer research.