Hello - thanks to all who have supported Sarah & our family in this challenge. If you can, please donate today!

We are well underway. This week, we will be out collecting cans for LLS. Tonight, my mom and I are driving around East Grand Rapids to pick up returnables. Please let us know if you have any - you can email my mom at lknajar@gmail.com and we'll add you to the list.

SAVE THE DATE: February 20, 2020 Garage Bar is donating a portion of their proceeds to LLS and our team, Spiking Out Cancer. It will be a lot of fun - we'll have U of M football tickets with tailgate for our raffle and Broadway GR tickets, too! Please join us if you can. We are looking for more items for our raffle and a silent auction at the Grand Finale Gala, too. 

Let us know how you want to get involved!

Thanks so much for helping us Spike Out Cancer!

 

Sarah Najar

I am honored to be a candidate for the 2020 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 my brother, Steven who is in remission from a blood cancer. Each dollar is a vote. The candidate team that raises the most money at the end of the seven weeks is named Student of the Year. Our mission 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. 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!

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, thank you for your support!

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