Welcome To Team K.O. (Knock Out) Cancer Students of the Year Fundraising Page.

Please join us in supporting The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) by making a donation to our fundraising campaign. Thanks to your support, our efforts, will help fund  the therapies and treatments and help save lives today.  Together we will help knock out cancer with your support and my team’s determination.

We are honored to have been accepted as candidates 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.  

We are fundraising in honor of Ethan Harrington, a young patient hero who is in remission from blood cancer.

We are also participating in honor of Kira’s Aunt Daria McLean, who had thyroid cancer twice, friends Bernie Margolis, Brian Larsen and Christa who are fighting blood cancer, and Kira’s uncle Richard Ferlauto who lost his battle with cancer this summer.

LLS's continued advancements over the years are responsible for the blood cancer survival rate doubling and tripling; in some cases, the survival rate has even quadrupled.

And many LLS supported therapies not only help blood cancer patients but are now used to treat patients with rare forms of stomach and skin cancers. They're even being tested in clinical trials for patients with a range of cancers including lung, brain, breast, pancreatic and prostate cancers. LLS funded drugs are now being tested for patients with other non-cancerous diseases like Diabetes, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Multiple Sclerosis.

We really are changing the face of blood cancer!

All donations are greatly appreciated and are tax deductible. They'll not only support LLS research but patient services, advocacy, public and professional education, and community services as well.

If you or anyone you know has been touched by cancer and would like to get involved, we'd like to ask you to reach out and share this website with anyone who might be interested in supporting our campaign.   We are hoping they’ll repeat the process and spread the word.  Together we can make this cause known and spread the mission of The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.   We have found that so many of the people we talk to about our team's efforts have a connection to cancer and want to get involved.

Please visit my Web site 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 lls.org

In Love and Gratitude,

Team K.O. (Knock Out)

Kira and Olakunsi

The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society,

2018 Students of the Year Candidate