Hi Friends and Family!

I am so incredibly honored to have been accepted as a candidate in the 2018 Students of the Year program! Students of the Year is a seven-week initiative in which select high school students from around the country participate in a fundraising competition to benefit The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

Since the early 1960s, five-year survival rates for many blood cancer patients have doubled, tripled or even quadrupled! And many LLS supported therapies not only help blood cancer patients but are helping patients with other cancers and serious diseases. In fact, drugs first approved for blood cancers are now approved to treat patients with stomach cancers, skin cancers, and autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis. We really are changing the face of blood cancer!

It sometimes is hard to see a face to such big causes as curing blood cancer, but millions of people in the US every day are affected. I got the chance to meet the cutest kid, Maddox, who is so young and has already faced this horrible disease. Maddox loves hugs and playing video games, and if I am going to be honest here, is one of the cutest kids I have ever met! Your support for this campaign and LLS is helping find a cure for these adorable little children and helping their families. On behalf of those struggling kids, I say thank you.

Need another reason to smile or another reason to donate to this incredible cause? This video explains it all

All donations are greatly appreciated and are tax deductible. They'll not only support LLS-funded research but will help provide critical information and support for patients, and support advocacy for laws to ensure patients can access the care and treatments they need.

Please visit our website often and bring friends who would also like to donate!

On behalf of blood cancer patients and their families everywhere I thank you so much for your support!

For more information about LLS, please visit www.lls.org