Stop breast cancer

[make_your_move]

For my friends ... but particularly by women friends. This website was started today by Dr. Susan Love to try and follow and study healthy women *before* they get breast cancer. This is a blurb from their site:

From Army of Women

About Us

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.

Our revolutionary initiative has two key goals:

• 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.

Join us in this movement that will take us beyond a cure by creating
new opportunities to study what causes breast cancer—and how to prevent
it.

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I don't want to lose another friend. I miss Talia ... I miss Cait. I want to do what I can to help.

Please look at the website, and considering joining.

Spread the word on your LJ and blogs.

Comments

[the-nita.livejournal.com]

And when they are able to select women from outside the US, I'll be there.

[flt.livejournal.com]

Thank you for posting this - I just joined.

Hugs!

[camperamy.livejournal.com]

I joined too. Just waiting on my Welcome email to sign up to volunteer.

[kimberlogic.livejournal.com]

Thank you for sharing this. A friend (under 32!) goes in for a double mastectomy today. We have to do whatever we can ...

[ebullientjenn.livejournal.com]

Thanks for posting this! I tried to get into a study at the Cleveland Clinic for high risk women, where I'd get a boobie MRI every 6 months, but apparently my mom having breast cancer TWICE, only counts once. Weird.

I even explored the idea of a voluntary mastectomy but the very nice Doc I talked to didn't think I was that high risk. *yeah right*

Now that I no longer think I'm going to die from obesity related heart problems, I worry more about cancer.