At eight years old, your ears are just beginning to grow out of the selective hearing phase, where every word an adult speaks is garbled nonsense. I happened to be tuning into a particular conversation when two words caught my attention. Cancer, and Grammy. I was confounded. Cancer was a distant, intangible experience that had not come knocking on my door until that day. I remember asking "Well not our Grammy. She doesn't even look sick.". At the time, I didn't understand that cancer touches every person, through family or friends. My grandmother had already survived one battle with breast cancer in 2011, only for it to return again that year in 2017. The dread that washed over me in that instance was one that, unbeknownst to me, millions before me had experienced. For how could an eight-year-old like myself know that 1,762,450 are diagnosed with cancer each year? How could I have known that 606,880 people are expected to have cancer as their cause of death this year? Every year, I find a new connection with cancer. Now, I have come less to fear the c-word that I once dreaded so fearfully. Cancer reseach is improving with every donation from people who, similarly, care. The Leukemia Lymphoma Society has rasied millions of dollars for researchas well as co-pay assistance, and travel assistance to financially aid patients with cancer. Your donation gives people hope, and enables researches to fully fund their explorations.

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