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One Million Strong Starts with One-YOU

The Love/Avon Army of Women, an initiative of the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation, thanks to a generous grant from the Avon Foundation for Women offers a revolutionary new opportunity for YOU to partner with research scientists to move breast cancer beyond a cure.

What is involved?

Register TODAY and provide us with very basic information such as your name, email, age, city, and state of residence.
You will receive email updates from us announcing new research studies looking for volunteers with or without breast cancer, just like you. There are many different types of studies. Some might require you to complete a questionnaire, while others might need a sample of blood, urine, saliva, breast fluid, or breast tissue. Some studies might be clinical trials testing a new detection marker or drug. You decide which studies you want to take part in. The email will detail the research project and who and what the researchers need.
If you fit the criteria and you’d like to participate, all you need to do is “RSVP” and let us know you’ve accepted our “Call to Action.” You will be asked to go through an online screening process to confirm you fit the criteria for the study.
Once we confirm your eligibility for the specific study, your information will be given to the researcher conducting the study and you will be contacted by the researcher for a secondary screening to make sure you meet the study criteria and answer any questions you might have about study participation.
You are in complete control and you self select what you want to do! You will never be pressured to take part in any study. The decision to take part is yours — and yours alone.

Breast cancer has been around for decades, but it does not have to be our future. We can be the generation that eliminates breast cancer by identifying what causes this disease and stopping it before it starts. Sign up for your sister, mother, daughter, granddaughter, best friend, and the woman you met last week.

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Current AOW Studies Looking for Volunteers

Yoga for Breast Cancer Survivors: Effects on Fatigue, Immune Function, and Mood
Breast cancer survivors can have a lot of post-treatment problems, such as fatigue, depression, and a decrease in physical function. It is possible that physical activities, like yoga, could help ease these symptoms. This is a study about how yoga affects fatigue, immune function, and mood of women treated for breast cancer.

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PT-304 Prediction of Response to Neoadjuvant Chemotherapy in Women with Operable Breast Cancer
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microRNA biomarkers for surveillance of breast cancer recurrence
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The Sister Study: A Study of the Environmental and Genetic Risk Factors For Breast Cancer
This research is looking at the environmental, lifestyle, and genetic factors that may make some women more likely to develop breast cancer. Sisters of women with breast cancer are being studied because sisters share some of the same genes and other characteristics. Much can be learned by comparing the life histories of those women who get cancer in the future and those who do not.

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Protocol for Narrowing the Gap in Adjuvant Therapy
African American women are more likely to die of breast cancer than Caucasian women, even though fewer African American women are getting breast cancer each year and screening use has improved. This difference has gotten worse over the past 20 years. The Gap Study was designed to gather the information needed to better understand the differences in breast cancer treatment experiences between Black/African American Women and White/European American Women. The researchers want to know more about how into improve the survival rates of women with breast cancer.

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The Milk Study: Using Breast Milk to Screen for Breast Cancer and Assess Breast-Cancer Risk
The purpose of this study is to determine if breast cancer and breast cancer risk can be accurately assessed from a breast milk sample. Currently, there is no accurate way to give women information about their personal risk of developing breast cancer. We will use the cells naturally present in breast milk to examine changes in DNA that occur in association with benign and cancerous breast lesions. Learning about the genetic changes associated with both breast cancer and non-cancerous breast lesions will help us develop a way to provide women with information about their breast cancer risk. Using breast milk to screen for breast cancer will reduce unnecessary biopsies among nursing women.

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We Stand Ready to Help You

The Love/Avon Army of Women, a partnership between the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation, and the Avon Foundation for Women, is dedicated to accelerating research into the cause and prevention of breast cancer. Our goal is to form partnerships between women and scientists.

The Army of Women members are eager to work with any researcher who is involved in or contemplating research in understanding the cause and prevention of breast cancer. The Army of Women can ACCELERATE your research, and give you ACCESS to over 300,000 women willing to give tissue, fluid, blood or information.

We have established key relationships with the American Association for Cancer Research and the National Breast Cancer Coalition. As our collaborators, both organizations are assisting with the recruitment of scientists and women, and both organizations also hold positions on the Army of Women Steering Committee and the Scientific Advisory Committee.

Keep an eye out for us at all upcoming fall research and medical meetings.

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