AARP 2009 Inspire Award winners

Someday there will be a cure for breast cancer, but someday isn’t good enough for Dr. Susan Love. In late 2008, the cofounder of the National Breast Cancer Coalition and the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation launched the Army of Women Initiative, a partnership with the Avon Foundation that she hopes will accelerate the search for a cure for the disease that strikes one in every eight women.

“I can’t fathom letting this disease go on for another generation. The time has come to stop it,” says Love.

The initiative’s aim is to recruit one million healthy women of every age and ethnicity to team up directly with breast cancer researchers. It’s just the latest in a string of stunning achievements for Love, who also developed a model for multidisciplinary breast care at the Revlon/UCLA Breast Cancer Center and wrote the seminal book on breast cancer, Dr. Susan Love’s Breast Book.

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