A Race Against Time to Erase Breast Cancer
PEP's founder inspired the collaboration & remix of BEAUTIFUL alongside the iconic Bootsy Collins for breast cancer awareness
The Pink Eraser Project® was born out of the urgency of a stage-4 survivor, Michele Young, who has seen firsthand the gaps in the system. We are at a turning point in history, where we can detect cancer early, reboot the immune system, and target tumors with precision. With a laser-like focus on identifying, publicizing, and funding the trials, research, and legislation that will make the greatest difference, we can transform the outdated standard of care for breast cancer now. This is a race against time.
We are here to bridge the gap. We are the catalysts, convenors, and creatives who see the status quo as unacceptable. This is a patient-driven effort to reach as many lives as possible. From the start, our vision has been grounded in reshaping cancer care and catalyzing the medical revolution taking place today from the perspective of those who are experiencing it first-hand. Our goal is to forever change the way we see, fund, and treat breast cancer.
Why? Because we can. 1 in 8 women will experience a disfiguring, disabling, and all too often a deadly disease. 316,950 women in the U.S. will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year,¹ and around the world, the statistics are even more striking: back in 2022, 2.3 million women were diagnosed with breast cancer.² The rippling impact reaches every home and workplace when you include families, loved ones, friends, and coworkers.
Imagine if breast cancer became manageable or curable, and how many lives would be changed. With immunotherapy, AI, CRISPR, therapeutic vaccines, early detection, and more, we stand at an unprecedented opportunity in medicine and science. This calls for a radical shift in attitudes, policies, and funding towards breast cancer. We are here to make it happen.
A Movement to Close the Gap and Transform Cancer Care
The Scientific Revolution
The Scientific Revolution
The Scientific Revolution
An extraordinary scientific revolution is taking place before our eyes for the first time in history. It will transform the standard of care. We can detect, prevent, and often treat breast cancer at the cellular level, which does not affect the healthy tissue. We can even train the immune system to fight cancer on its own. The gap between yesterday's science and today's science is so great that a cancer patient cannot miss it. It can be the difference between life and death.
We need to accelerate the scientific revolution so that not one life is lost unnecessarily. Erasing breast cancer means dismantling outdated mindsets and regulatory policies that hinder the widespread implementation of lifesaving solutions grounded in science, evidence, and lived experience.
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The Scientific Revolution
The Scientific Revolution
Those classic pink block erasers – solid, with six simple sides – helped us begin again and again. Erasing breast cancer demands the same persistence, from every side and every angle, because breast cancer is not a one-dimensional battle. It is a deeply human one that calls for a response as multifaceted as the lives it touches.
Prevention is paramount, and early detection is critical. Reimagining treatment requires a radical change in the attitudes, laws, and regulations that hinder advances and access to life-saving care. This requires coordination from the state level to the international, to support a revolution in science that was unimaginable just a few years ago.
A Movement Making the National Call to End Breast Cancer
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1 in 8 women across the U.S.¹ will be diagnosed with breast cancer, and worldwide, breast cancer in women accounts for 1 in 4 new cases.³ We are here to fill that gap between what science can offer and today's treatment plan. Other charities offer research that may be years in the future. Others offer necessary assistance and solace. We offer action today. Your donation is an investment in a breast cancer-free future that gets us closer to expanding the science and laws needed to save the more than 42,000 lives nationally¹ and nearly 670,000 lives globally² ⁴ taken by breast cancer each year. Make a difference by donating to the Pink Eraser Project® today.
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The Pink Eraser Project® provides evidence-based and fact-checked information:
¹ American Cancer Society - https://www.cancer.org/cancer/types/breast-cancer/understanding-a-breast-cancer-diagnosis/breast-cancer-survival-rates.html
² World Health Organization - https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/breast-cancer
³ Journal of Clinical Oncology - https://ascopubs.org/doi/10.1200/JCO.2023.41.16_suppl.10528#:~:text=Results:%20Breast%20cancer%20is%20the,and%20Central%20America%20(39.5).
⁴ World Cancer Research Fund - https://www.wcrf.org/preventing-cancer/cancer-statistics/breast-cancer-statistics/
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