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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

Sleep, Circadian Hormonal Dysregulation and Breast Cancer Survival
Too much stress and not enough sleep are two things that many women know all too well. But, could they be linked to breast cancer? That is what a group of researchers at Stanford University want to find out. They are studying the effect that stress and sleep-related hormones may have on the immune system and cancer progression.

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The BEAM Study
Today, doctors rely on a woman’s personal and family medical history to help them figure out if she is at higher than average risk of developing breast cancer. But this method is far from perfect. Many women who develop breast cancer don’t have any of the known risk factors. And many women who have all of the known risk factors never get the disease. Clearly, we need a better way to tell who is at risk. And that’s what the BEAM (Breast Estrogen and Methylation) study is all about: Finding a better way to predict a woman’s breast cancer risk. Three hundred women are needed for this study.

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DCIS and BRCA 1/ 2 Study
The goal of this study is to learn more about the genetic material, called DNA, of women who have had DCIS and have the BRCA 1 or 2 mutation. This DNA can be obtained through a saliva sample. Studying DNA might help us to better understand the prognosis and outcome for this group of women and to find out whether there is a relationship between DCIS and BRCA 1/2.

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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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Pathways to Recovery After Breast Cancer
In an effort to find the best way to empower women with the information they need as they begin to live their lives after breast cancer, researchers across the nation and the National Cancer Institute’s Cancer Information Service have developed a study that is investigating the best way to provide post-treatment education materials via the Internet or CD-Rom, to breast cancer survivors.

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The Impact of Colonic Microbiota on Breast Cancer
The purpose of this study is to find out what type of bacteria can be found in the intestines and to look at the way the bacteria metabolize estrogen and other female hormones. The bacteria of women who have never had breast cancer will be compared to the bacteria of women who have been recently diagnosed with breast cancer. Thirty (30) women who have never had breast cancer are needed for this study.

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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 to improve the survival rates of women with breast cancer.

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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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Trouble Sleeping After Breast Cancer Treatment?
The purpose of this study is to determine whether Tai Chi or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy can change sleep patterns and reduce insomnia. The study will also investigate whether Tai Chi or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy changes levels of the immune cell products that are known to alter sleep. It will also assess individual genetic differences in immune cell products and their possible relationship to insomnia.

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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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