Susan M. Love, an indefatigable surgeon, author and patient advocate who spent decades crusading against breast cancer, including as a co-founder of the National Breast Cancer Coalition, has died at 75.
, the Dr. Susan Love Foundation for Breast Cancer Research, which said she had recurrent leukemia. Dr. Love was diagnosed in 2012 with acute myelogenous leukemia, a blood and bone marrow cancer.
Dr. Love was among the country’s most prominent advocates for breast cancer research and treatment. She directed breast clinics in Boston and Los Angeles, taught at Harvard Medical School and UCLA’s David Geffen School of Medicine, and was an early champion of cancer treatments that were less invasive than traditional methods, which she described as “slash, burn and poison.
Within a year, the coalition had 150 member groups. It organized marches and letter-writing campaigns, met with President Bill Clinton in the White House and lobbied for increased federal spending on breast cancer research, which grew from about $90 million in 1992 to $420 million in 1994.
“Helen and I have money and privilege,” Dr. Love said the next year, “so it’s our obligation to pave the way.” Dr. Love was also a member of the National Cancer Advisory Council and wrote books including “Dr. Susan Love’s Menopause and Hormone Book” , which argued — somewhat controversially — against the widespread practice of using hormone replacement therapy to treat menopausal symptoms, which she linked to an increased risk for cancer.
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