PINK ERASER PROJECT: A Medical Revolution
When I was diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer, I saw firsthand how women with breast cancer are marginalized—and I knew I could change that. My cancer had been missed for years on regular mammograms due to my dense breast tissue. Advanced screening technology could have caught it earlier, but my state didn’t provide insurance coverage for it, nor was it ever suggested to me. It just wasn’t the “norm.” By the time it was discovered, I was told to prepare my bucket list.
But instead of giving in, I challenged the norm. I chose to live and made a promise to use my talents and experience to erase breast cancer—not just for me, but for all women. That was six years ago. I ask you to join me as we are so close to what once seemed an impossible dream. 2025 is the year.
Mission: We are on a moral crusade to erase breast cancer
This Affects You!
The science exists to erase breast cancer.
We all deserve to have access to it.
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, and find cancer when mammograms cannot, 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.
We have the science to detect cancer early. We do not use it.
We have the science to develop trials and offer cancer vaccine and other personalized treatments to forestall or prevent death. We do not do so. A terminal patient seeking to live might be better off today booking a flight to London in the hope of treatment.
Why You Should Care!
You may think you’ll never get it because it’s not in your genes, but for most women, it’s not a matter of genes. There is no such thing as “low risk” when 1 in 8 women in our nation will have breast cancer. This is a normalized epidemic. It could be your friend, your mother, your co-worker, your daughter, or you.
You may not be able to afford the treatment or to take time off from work. Your family, friends and co-workers may not know how to pick up the pieces of their lives while you are gone and if you never return. You may never come back as you were if you received traditional treatment – brutal and barbaric – that will leave its mark in ways you cannot imagine whether it is the loss of clear thought because of all the chemotherapy, or the loss of feeling in the hands and feet because of neuropathy, or flat scar tissue where breasts once were because of mastectomy. You will likely find it hard to make ends meet and even join the 1 in 4 with medical debt who declare bankruptcy or lose their homes. Or you may join the 44,000 women who die every year.
Today, this will be your treatment, depending on your zip code, on where you live, what kind of insurance you have, and if you can afford the latest treatments and procedures.
You do not want this for yourself or for anyone else. This is why you should care.
This Is Why I Care And Lead The Charge!
I am the lawyer who speaks for those who do not have a voice—who have been bullied, forgotten, or counted out. I have a proven track record of fighting uphill battles for marginalized individuals and winning. I do this by finding the path to victory – often uncharted – and doing what’s necessary to win. This can include changing laws, establishing policy, building political will, bringing focus, and connecting the right people. And I am tenacious. When I make a promise, I keep it. Here’s proof:
- I secured a landmark settlement for the family of a bullied child.
- I helped exonerate an innocent woman after decades in prison
- I’ve worked to elect women to office for the first time.
- I’ve written on the law and medicine, including co-authoring a book published by the American Bar Association.
- I’ve been recognized for my work, recently as a Cincinnati Enquirer 2020 Woman of the Year and USA Today 2024 Ohio Woman of the Year.
After we passed life-saving, early-detection legislation in Ohio, I set my sights on the goal of erasing breast cancer. My work was recognized nationally, including by Katie Couric who has taken the breast cancer early detection movement to Congress.
This is why there is a Pink Eraser Project, to break through the barriers that prevent a medical revolution on the verge of preventing and curing breast cancer from reaching all women in need now. I am keeping my promise made so long ago that no woman with breast cancer would ever walk alone as long as I was alive.
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