Have any of you considered joining the Dr. Susan Love Army of Women for breast cancer research?
Question by EROS7776: Have any of you considered joining the Dr. Susan Love Army of Women for breast cancer research?
Last week the national news carried stories about Dr. Susan Love and the Army of Women project, where they are attempting to get one million women to volunteer for various testing projects to help cure breast cancer. Have any of you read about it or joined to help in this effort? I was thinking about joining and just wanted to know the opinion of other women regarding if they were interested.
Thank you for your replies.
Their website: http://www.armyofwomen.org/ourgoal
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Answer by R. Gaspari
Yes, I am very concerned about this research and I hope the NIH offers an appropriate grant for more screening mammography to be done. And I also wish to advance the effort of Dr. Stavros with respect toward applying first-line ultrasonographic techniques and validating them in absentia of screening mammos as I feel that there is compelling evidence that pathologic lesions can be detected as easily using Dr. Stavros’ guidelines which fall nicely inline with the ACR BIRADS classification.
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January 27th, 2012 at 9:38 am
Oh, I’d be interested. Thanks for the link! Why not?
ETA: done and done!! No women in my family has ever been diagnosed with or treated for breast cancer, that I know of. It would be an honor to be chosen for a study.
And even though this study calls for an Army of Women, men get breast cancer too. My BFF’s husband was diagnosed with Stage 4 breast cancer. After a mastectomy, chemo and radiation, he’s doing fine today. I can’t imagine they’d turn down any of the many principled MRA’s here who will certainly be protesting this grossly unfair treatment of men.
January 27th, 2012 at 10:19 am
I joined last week.
I like the focus on lets find a ’cause’. We have many efforts focused on finding a cure.
January 27th, 2012 at 10:45 am
No I had never heard about it, but what a great idea! I think that if you have any breast cancer in your family, it would be good to join this.