dr. susan love. of the dr. rch foundation >> susan and i used to be in love, we're still friends and we do check in on each other and very affectionate so i want you to know girl power exists. there's a future in girl power. >> thank goodness because we need girl power right now, talking about breast cancer, such an important issue and dr. love i think a lot of people, we know that the cure rates are getting better. we know that people are living longer with this disease, which is great news but you say still not good enough. >> it's not good enough because the treatments, surgery, radiation, chemo, hormones, targeted treatments all have side effects, they all have collateral damage and 40,000 women still die of breast cancer and so what we really need is to focus on finding the cause of breast cancer as opposed to the cure. i think when the nfl is wearing pink, we're aware. awareness is not the issue. the issue is what causes it and how can we stop it? and how can we refocus that, whether it's looking for a vir

dr. susan love are trying to do.ght to the tumor and avoid removing part of breast or sending toxic chemotherapy through every cell in the woman's body. >> right now the treatment is surgery trying to cut it out pretty blind ly and then radiation and then hormone treatments. if this kind of treatment could really work, we could eliminate the need to have a mastectomy and really squirt the treatment down the ducts like draino and clean them out. >> reporter: 40,000 will in a year could use this treatment. the ducts are where most breast cancers begin. doctors would take a thin catheter and thread it into the woman's duct, creating a passage way allowing them to deliver medicines directly to the tumor cells. >> this could be a treatment to give people a way of getting rid of their breast cancer without so many of the terrible side effects. >> reporter: suzanna wolf is part of the cutting edge study which was just testing to see if the delivery system would be safe. she had stage 2 breast cancer and knew she would have