Susan Love was an American surgeon and a prominent advocate of preventive breast cancer research, regarded as one of the most respected women's health specialists in the United States. Born in Little Silver, New Jersey, in 1948, she received her medical degree from SUNY Downstate Medical School in 1974 and trained in surgery at Boston's Beth Israel Hospital. In 1988 she founded the Faulkner Breast Center in Boston, and in 1992 she was recruited to set up a breast center at the University of California, Los Angeles. A founder of the breast cancer advocacy movement of the early 1990s, she helped organize the National Breast Cancer Coalition and later led a foundation for breast cancer research. She died in Los Angeles in 2023.
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was an American surgeon, a prominent advocate of preventive breast cancer research, and author
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Susan Margaret Love was born in Little Silver, New Jersey, on February 9, 1948.
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died from a recurrence of the disease on July 2, 2023, at the age of 75
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was an American surgeon, a prominent advocate of preventive breast cancer research, and author
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She was regarded as one of the most respected women's health specialists in the United States.
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was an American surgeon, a prominent advocate of preventive breast cancer research, and author
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