Cadets 4 a Change Team:

Kate McLoughlin

Emma Tran

Allie Gorsuch

Catherine Chua

Stryker Bianchi

Welcome to the Cadets 4 a Change Mission!

I am honored to have been accepted as a candidate in the 2018 Students of the Year program, 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.

I am raising critical dollars in honor of a young patient hero named Lance Bigelow, a current freshman at Dematha Catholic High School, who is in remission from a blood cancer. Each dollar is a vote. The candidate team who raises the most money at the end of the seven weeks is named Student of the Year. My team's mission as the "Cadets 4 a Change" is to not only raise the most money but also to bring attention to blood cancers like leukemia, which is the most common form of cancer in children and teens.

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. We really are changing the face of blood cancer!

Leukemia still causes more death than any other cancer among children under the age of 20. We must come together as a community and support the critical work of LLS in helping these families fight disease.

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 everywhere I thank you for your support!

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