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Commentary: How Susan Love changed medical care for breast cancer patients

In the end, a lowly tape recorder helped to change the face of breast cancer treatment. Susan Love, who died last week at age 75, was in the early 1990s the director of the UCLA Breast Center, which was designed to turn the world of breast cancer treatment on its head. The one advantage to not being part of the old boys’ medical network, Love liked to say, was that she didn’t have to play by ...
Susan Love, M.D. is author, teacher, surgeon, researcher and activist. Susan Love's Breast Book, "has been called one of the most important books in women's health in the last decade. In 1996, after twenty years of direct patient care, Dr. Love left clinical practice to devote more time to her basic research and her growing interest in women's health as an Adjunct...

In the end, a lowly tape recorder helped to change the face of breast cancer treatment.

Susan Love, who died last week at age 75, was in the early 1990s the director of the UCLA Breast Center, which was designed to turn the world of breast cancer treatment on its head.

The one advantage to not being part of the old boys’ medical network, Love liked to say, was that she didn’t have to play by

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