Virtual 5K for Clean Blood

As a part of our efforts, we are hosting a virtual 5k run/walk; for more information and/or sign up please visit here!

My Why

Most of my life I’ve been personally affected by cancer, and let me just say, it is not fun, and I wouldn’t wish it on my worst enemy. Up until April 2020, when she passed, the last 8 years, my mom had been battling cancer, first breast and then stomach. Even though LLS mainly focuses on blood cancers, any cancer research and funding supports advacements on all types of cancers. When I heard about this program a couple of months ago, it struck me as something that my mom would be proud to see me do. This is why I am participating in this campaign, to honor her. My heart is in this campaign because I truly hope at some point in time we will live in a cancer-free world. Although we are a long way away from that being reality, it in no way means that we give up, it means we work harder. My team and I will be joining LLS in their race to end cancer, hoping that with the funds we raise, another child who can’t afford cancer treatment will be treated, another research project will be funded, and/or much more. 

My beautiful mom, Nuria Planas-Vilanova. 

My mom was an amazing piano player and teacher, having played since she was 10 years old, and having taught for about 2 years. This picture is me and her in August 2019 after she performed at the Kennedy Center. 

Thank you for visiting my fundraising page, welcome!

I encourage you to join me in supporting The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) by making a donation to my fundraising campaign. By donating to LLS, you support the many facets of LLS’s mission work from investing in groundbreaking research, providing education and support to patients, and advocating at the state and federal level for legislation to help those living with cancer. My appreciation for your support cannot be overstated — each and every dollar donated to LLS brings us closer to our goal to end blood cancer and makes an impact for cancer patients and their families.

As a global leader in the fight to end cancer, LLS is committed to doing more for blood cancer patients and families than any organization in the world. LLS’s signature fundraising campaigns drive critical support for its mission, including a nearly $1.3 billion investment in cutting edge cancer research worldwide since it was founded in 1949. Since the 1960s, survival rates for many blood cancer patients have doubled, tripled, or even quadrupled.

Every facet of LLS’s mission – research, education and support, and policy and advocacy – work in harmony to put blood cancer patients and their families first. LLS has helped millions impacted by cancer throughout its more than 70-year history, even funding breakthrough blood cancer research to advance lifesaving treatments and cures that is now helping patients with other cancers and diseases. That is why at LLS we say that beating cancer is in our blood.

Please visit my website as often as you can and share it with everyone you know who would also like to join us in the fight against cancer. Together, we have the power, the passion and the resolve to achieve a world without blood cancer. All donations are tax-deductible.

On behalf of cancer patients and their families everywhere, I sincerely thank you for your support!

For more information about LLS, please visit lls.org