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Jack Halpern (Candidate)

Shelly & Miles Tudor

Ava Chiari

Madison Audi

Every three minutes someone is diagnosed with a blood cancer. In 1991, my grandfather, Frank Halpern, was one of them. 

While I was growing up it was incredibly difficult to watch him struggle with Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia. My grandfather has since passed away, and in his honor, I am participating as a candidate in the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's 2020 Students of the Year campaign. 

The Students of the Year Campaign is a seven-week initiative in which select high school students like myself 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.

More than 33% of blood cancer patients do not survive five years after diagnosis. With your help, we can improve these numbers dramatically!

We are changing the face of blood cancer!

Because of campaigns like Students of the Year, LLS has seen tremendous success in 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

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 NEED YOUR HELP!

Our ultimate goal is to raise $150,000 for cancer research. A major part of this fundraising goal is hitting the $50,000 mark where I will be able to name a research grant after my grandfather!

All donations are greatly appreciated and are tax-deductible. With your donation, you’re not only supporting LLS research but patient services, advocacy, public and professional education, and community services as well. Together WE CAN FIND A CURE!

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.

Please visit my fundraising webpage 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

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