Army of Women

A friend, Liz gave me the breast cancer "bible" written by Susan Love and it has been a life saver (if you have anyone in your life that is diagnosed it is a great gift).... I have been searching around on her website as of late and have stumbled across very important information. Information on breast cancer, menopause and overall women's health. Check out Love's site

“We need to go beyond a cure. We need to stop people from ever getting breast cancer in the first place.”
— DR. SUSAN LOVE

Love has created an innovative research initiative designed to recruit real women of every age, ethnicity and breast cancer risk to participate in a wide array of clinical studies. In effect, the Army of Women gives all women, with or without breast cancer, the opportunity to partner with researchers and take breast cancer awareness beyond a cure to prevention.

Some of the Army of Women’s current research studies include:
• Developing an inexpensive and easy to use band-aid-like test strip that can assess whether a premenopausal woman is at risk to develop breast cancer
• Low-dose anti-estrogens & Omega-3 fatty acids to prevent hormone-independent breast cancer
• Using specially trained dogs and a chemical test on exhaled breath markers for early detection of epithelial ovarian cancer
• How bacteria in the intestines metabolize estrogen & other female hormones
• To see if there are differences in breast cells found in the breast milk of healthy women & those who have cancer
• Whether wake/sleep cycle disruptions in women who work the night shift may increase their breast cancer risk

Please join me and the other 360,000 plus women who’ve already become a member of the Army of Women. Whether it’s your book club, friends, family or the women in your office, forward this blog to all of the women in your life, whether they’ve had breast cancer or not, and urge them to sign up. 


XOXO,  -K