Kathleen T. Ruddy, MD
61, is a breast cancer surgeon
trained at Memorial SloanKettering, a member of the
Leadership Council of the
Harvard School of Public
Health and the Clinton Global
Initiative, and Founder and
President of the Breast Health
and Healing Foundation (501c3) whose
mission is to discover the causes of breast
cancer and to use that knowledge to prevent
the disease. Her goal is to answer two questions: “Does a virus cause breast cancer in
women?” and “Is the world’s first preventive
breast cancer vaccine developed by Professor
Vincent Tuohy (Cleveland Clinic, 2010) safe
and effective for use in women?”
“It’s much easier to pluck fruit from an existing tree of knowledge than take a chance and grow a new one. Nevertheless, it’s
time for a new tree, one nurtured in the field of prevention.”
— Kathleen T. Ruddy, MD
Cindy Sullivan, 59, is a thriver who
was diagnosed with a little known and
very aggressive type of breast cancer;
Inflammatory Breast Cancer (IBC) in
April 2011, sixteen months after losing
her mother to lung cancer.
Cindy joined the Champions of the
Pink Vaccine in a firm commitment to get the vaccine
funded for clinical trials so other women will never need
to travel the uncertain path of breast cancer. She has
been a copy writer for many years and is in the process
of working on her first manuscript for a novel.
“It’s time for a paradigm change in funding
breast cancer research. We’ve been funding
cures for years and little progress has been
made. Why not fund prevention so future
generations never need worry about suffering
through the physical and emotional trauma
of chemotherapy, mastectomy and radiation.”
— Cindy Sullivan
David Jay
David Jay dealt with the pain of
watching his 29 year old friend
Paulina go through her breast
cancer diagnosis, mastectomy and
recovery by taking her picture, as
a fashion photographer he’d taken
her picture hundreds of times
since she was 17. From this experience The SCAR Project was born
and evolved into what it’s become
today. Now seven years later The
SCAR Project has touched millions
with it’s raw, unfiltered look at the
grace and courage that IS breast
cancer. Hundreds of thousands of
people have viewed the images
of young woman whose lives
and bodies have been forever
changed as they confront their
personal journey with breast
cancer. A documentary about The
SCAR Project called, “Baring It All”
has been aired around the world
and was awarded a 2012 daytime
EMMY. The SCAR Project is now a
non-profit and although David Jay
is the founder, at the end of the
day, he prefers to consider himself
only a photographer. David Jay is
presently shooting two subsets
of The SCAR Project: The SCAR
Project - Male Breast Cancer and
The Alabama Project - The Civil
Rights of Health Care.
Fall 2013
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