Pink Eraser Project: A LETTER FROM PEP CEO MICHELE YOUng
To Our Pink Eraser Project Supporters:
Welcome back to the BIG Pink Eraser Project! That’s right, PEP is new and improved. We are no longer an eraser the size that fits on the end of a pencil; we’re now one of those big pink blocks that sits on your desk, ready to do some heavy erasing.
Our Expanded Mission:
This is a moral crusade. A new era in breast cancer treatment is emerging, yet many women are still receiving care as if it were 50 years ago. Today, we can detect cancer years ahead of mammograms, equip the body to combat cancer without relying solely on chemotherapy, relieve suffering, and potentially extend lives or cure cancer, even at advanced stages. However, while science has leaped forward, our laws and attitudes have not kept pace.
It is a national shame that the medical revolution is affordable and available in other nations but not here. We have the science to detect cancer early and harness the patient's immune system to fight, forestall, or prevent death. But we will have to sweep away antiquated policies and attitudes to bring this revolution here now. A terminal patient seeking to live might be better off today booking a flight ticket to London or Moscow. That is so deeply wrong.
It is time to erase the old ways of thinking and policies that prevent the saving of countless lives now.