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My name is Saanvi Paladugu and I am a sophomore at The Madeira School from Sterling, Virginia. I love to hike, dance, and play volleyball and basketball. I am very excited and incredibly honored to be a part of The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's (LLS) 2021 Students of the Year Campaign, which is a seven-week initiative in which high school students raise funds for LLS's mission of curing leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma and spread awareness of blood cancer's impact on the lives of patients and their families. 

Blood cancer affects so many people, including others my own age, and COVID-19 has made the battle even more difficult for cancer patients and their families. Lifesaving breakthroughs have also come from blood cancer research, which have tremendously helped in leading the way for more and more cancer treatments. By raising funds and participating in this campaign, I hope to help improve the quality of life of cancer patients and their families. I ask you to please join me and my team in making sure no one has to go through this. My team, Team Tyler, includes Ayana Ahuja, Ava Dunphy, Catherine Ndumbalo, Ava Greathouse, Kyleigh Woodrick, Eliza Reed, Riya Ganguly, and myself. 

We are participating in this campaign in honor of Tyler Thomas. He is the son of Mark Thomas and Brenda Frese, who is the University of Maryland's women's basketball coach. At just the age of two, Tyler was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). After years of unpredictable days and chemotherapy treatments, Tyler finished chemotherapy in December 2013 and is now a healthy 12-year-old boy! Team Tyler is raising funds to make sure other kids do not have to go through what Tyler battled and to help families like his get the support they need.

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 a positive 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. Your support is greatly appreciated! 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 J