Students of the Year Washington DC
Clare Comstock | Team Cadets 4 a Cure
Welcome to Clare Comstock's SOY Fundraising Page!
Today is the kickoff of the Students of the Year 2020 fundraiser. I am thrilled to be able to help make a difference by helping LLS and their mission to find cures and help patients and families affected by blood cancers.
Kickoff is almost here!
Welcome to Clare Comstock's SOY Fundraising Page!
Welcome To My Fundraising Page!
I am honored to be participating in The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) 2020 Students of the Year (SOY) campaign, a seven-week initiative in which high school students from around the country are nominated to participate in a fundraising competition to benefit LLS’s mission: to find a cure for leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma, and to improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
I am raising funds in honor of those who are currently battling or are in remission from a blood cancer. Each dollar is a vote and the team that raises the most money at the end of the seven weeks is named Students of the Year. As a team, 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.
We are changing the face of blood cancer! Will you join us?!
Because of campaigns like Students of the Year, LLS has seen tremendous success discovering new and more effective treatments for blood cancer patients and has created a new exciting initiative focusing on treatments for pediatric patients.
- LLS funded 43 of the 49 FDA approved treatments for blood cancer patients since 2017
- Since 2000, more than 40% of the new cancer therapies approved by the FDA started as blood cancer research
- In 2019, LLS established The LLS Children’s Initiative, a comprehensive $50 MILLION multi-year endeavor, to help children with cancer through every facet of LLS’s mission:
- More than doubling our investment in pediatric cancer research grants
- Expanding education and support service for children and their families
- Advocating for and driving policies to accelerate the development of new treatments and break down barriers to care
- Launching LLS PedAL (Pediatric Acute Leukemia), a groundbreaking global precision medicine clinical trial in acute pediatric leukemia
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.
Please join me in supporting my campaign and LLS by making a donation to my fundraising campaign. Thanks to your support, my efforts, will help fund the therapies and treatments and help save lives today.
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.
All donations are greatly appreciated and are tax deductible. With your donation, you’re not only support LLS research but patient services, advocacy, public and professional education, and community services as well. Together WE CAN FIND A CURE!
Please visit my fundraising webpage(s) often and pass along the link to family, friends, neighbors, colleagues, etc. who might donate! I recognize I need lots of support to reach my fundraising goal!
On behalf of blood cancer patients everywhere I thank you for your support!
For more information about LLS, please visit www.lls.org
16 Comments
John Lincoln Hallowell
My brother in law, Ted Glick,survived leukemia last year, thanks to a bone marrow transplant from my wife Jennifer. We are grateful that he is still with us, and grateful to Clare for doing this wonderful fundraiser for such an important cause.
Karen Knutson
Good luck Claire. It is wonderful you are doing this!
Judy and Fred Blick
This is important work, Clare. Thanks for your effort. Love, Judy and Fred
Colleen and Ted Kelly
Way to go, Claire. Thank you for raising attention and money for this important cause.
Merz Family
Great job for a great cause!
Laura and Scott Springer
Great work Clare. Keep it up!
Gray and Andrew King
Good luck Clare! We hope you reach you goal! Gray and Andrew King
Suzie and Norm Dicks
Great effort Claire for an enormously important cause. Happy to help!
Isabelle Johnson & Chris Beck
Good work!
Elizabeth Hileman
Good job, Clare. Thank you for raising awareness about this illness which caused Tony's mother's death in 1983. Love, Betty and Tony
Helen-Ann Comstock
Thank you, Clare, for supporting such an important cause. Love, Grandmother
Thomas McInerney
GREAT WORK CLARE! KEEP PRESSING! LOVE Uncle Tom AND Aunt Mona
Bev Lane
Best of luck! Bev Lane
Christina & Tom Hudson
Thanks for raising awareness of this issue
Steve Nicklanovich
Hi Clare - make sure your old man opens up his wallet as well ;)
Catherine Stevens
We all thank you Clare for joining in the effort to finally conquer these horrific blood diseases. We remember the battle of our Champion Dog Sled Musher Susan Butcher and deeply appreciate your commitment. With love and admiration, Catherine Stevens