Today, February 4th, is World Cancer Day! We are honoring the family and friends in our lives that have been effected by cancer. They are the reason we partake in Student of the Year to fight for a cure in hopes that no one else has to endure the losses that we have. Find our honored heroes using this link!

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With the support and generosity from local businesses and corporations in the area, our team has been given fundraising dates where proceeds from sales at that time will be given to the team. Please help us bring sales to these locations!

February 10th: Squisitos food fundraiser in Annapolis, MD (4 PM- 7 PM)

February 13th: MOD Pizza Fundraiser at Oakton from 10 AM - 10 PM

February 25: Chipotle Fundraiser at Oakton from 5-9 PM

Our names are Cami (16) and Gracie Brown (15) and we are students at Oakton High School. We are each hard working individuals and love being involved within the community as we are both members of National Charity League. Both of us are involved in many Oakton clubs, and play competitive soccer as Cami plays for the Herndon Hooligans and Gracie plays soccer for the Washington Spirit Development Academy. Both of us have been greatly touched by cancer through family and friends, as we want to work with LLS to promote awareness and raise all the money we can to fight for a cure. We joined Hannah’s team after volunteering at the Light the Night Fundraiser, a wonderful event LLS hosts to support survivors, supporters and those who have lost loved ones to cancer. In one years time, our family lost 3 grandparents to cancer, and in this year alone, our Aunt Cheryl was diagnosed with breast cancer and we lost an uncle to myeloproliferative disease. We are supporting LLS in memory of those we have lost. It’s because of organizations like LLS and the awareness and research that they raise, our Aunt is the first in our family to survive cancer, and because of her, we will continue to fight for a cure and we hope you will do the same.

We are honored to participate in the 2019 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 proud to be raising critical dollars in honor of a young patient hero who is currently battling or 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(s) 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.