{"entity":{"id":"susan-love","kind":"person","name":"Susan Love","aka":[],"tldr":"Her Breast Book gave women the information to question their surgeons; she co-founded the National Breast Cancer Coalition and in 2008 recruited hundreds of thousands of women into research through the Army of Women.","summary":"Susan Love (1948-2023) was one of the first women to become a breast surgeon in the United States, at Beth Israel and later as director of the UCLA Breast Center. Dr. Susan Love's Breast Book (1990), now in its seventh edition, became the reference that let patients understand their options and question the reflex to mastectomy. In 1991 she co-founded the National Breast Cancer Coalition with Fran Visco. Through the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation she pursued the causes and prevention of breast cancer, and in 2008 launched the Army of Women, later Love Research Army, which enrolled more than 380,000 volunteers willing to be contacted for studies, cutting recruitment times for researchers. She was treated for acute myeloid leukaemia in 2012 and wrote about being a patient. She died in July 2023.","asOf":"2026-09-09","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Love","links":[{"label":"Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Love"},{"label":"National Breast Cancer Coalition","url":"https://www.stopbreastcancer.org/"}],"tags":["hero","advocate","pioneer","patient"],"related":[],"cancers":["aml"],"sections":[],"technologies":[],"targets":[],"drugs":[],"companies":[],"institutions":["ucla-jonsson"],"pathways":[],"terms":[],"trials":[],"people":["fran-visco"],"bottlenecks":["b-trial-enrolment","b-patient-voice"],"keyPapers":[],"journals":[],"dependsOn":[],"notes":[],"role":"Breast surgeon, author and founder of the Army of Women","specialisms":["Breast surgery","Breast cancer prevention","Patient education","Research participation"],"profiles":[{"label":"Wikipedia","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susan_Love"},{"label":"National Breast Cancer Coalition","url":"https://www.stopbreastcancer.org/"}],"papers":[{"title":"Breast-duct endoscopy to study stages of cancerous breast disease","journal":"The Lancet","year":1996,"doi":"10.1016/s0140-6736(96)04145-1"},{"title":"Anatomy of the nipple and breast ducts revisited","journal":"Cancer","year":2004,"doi":"10.1002/cncr.20559"},{"title":"Palpable Breast Lump Triage by Minimally Trained Operators in Mexico Using Computer-Assisted Diagnosis and Low-Cost Ultrasound","journal":"Journal of Global Oncology","year":2018,"doi":"10.1200/jgo.17.00222"}]},"route":"/people/susan-love/","neighbours":{"cancer":[{"id":"aml","kind":"cancer","name":"Acute myeloid leukaemia","route":"/cancers/aml/"}],"institution":[{"id":"ucla-jonsson","kind":"institution","name":"UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center","route":"/institutions/ucla-jonsson/"}],"person":[{"id":"fran-visco","kind":"person","name":"Fran Visco","route":"/people/fran-visco/"}],"bottleneck":[{"id":"b-patient-voice","kind":"bottleneck","name":"Patients lack understanding, navigation and agency","route":"/bottlenecks/b-patient-voice/"},{"id":"b-trial-enrolment","kind":"bottleneck","name":"Trials enrol too few, too slowly","route":"/bottlenecks/b-trial-enrolment/"}]}}