The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease, and myeloma and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. LLS’s signature fundraising campaigns support research, education, and advocacy, including a nearly $1.3 billion investment in cutting edge cancer research worldwide. LLS helped advance 52 out of the 60 FDA-Approved blood cancer treatments since 2017 and has continued to provide free educational resources for patients and their families. 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. 

Each year, LLS dedicates the Student of the Year Campaign to honor a local patient or survivor. This year’s honored hero, Kory Coates, was a 15-year-old boy diagnosed with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML) at the age of 15 after suffering from a mild stroke. Kory battled AML for seven months after his diagnosis, but he continued to excel in school despite the obstacles against him. After two years, Kory relapsed on August 26th, 2019, but he continued to fight and had a bone marrow transplant as his next course of treatment. Although he fought hard, he, unfortunately, passed away this December before completing his junior year of high school. Kory is the reason I am so passionate about fundraising for this campaign and why I am so dedicated to the LLS mission. 

Similar to many others, cancer has effected loved ones close to me as well as many other people in my life. My grandfather battled cancer for many years throughout his life and seeing the toll it took on his life has made me realize how important it is to support raising money in order to fund cancer research.

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. 

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 the Panthers Against Cancer team and everyone affected by cancer, I sincerely thank you for your support!

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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