​​​​​Welcome to Keira Distaso's fundraising page! I have joined "Team Discovery" alongside my classmates and friends to participate in LLS's Students of the Year's fundraising campaign, with a goal of $15,000 and we need your help. I hope that through this campaign, we can help bring an end to blood cancers!

Students of the Year is a seven week-long campagin from January 7th to February 25th in which high school students from across the nation raise as much money as they can to support patient care, supplies, and innovative research and technology to discover a better treatment and hopefully a cure to blood cancer! All donations will go directly towards LLS's mission to find cures for leukemia, lymphoma, myeloma, Hodgkin's disease, and improve the quality of life for cancer patients and their families. Several blood cancer therapies are now being used in clinical trials with other cancers and diseases such as multiple sclerosis and diabetes, with LLS funding 53 of 62 FDA approved treatments since 2017. LLS has invested over $1.3 billion in research since its founding in 1949.

My family has been personally impacted by blood cancers. Both my grandfather and great aunt lived with Acute Myeloid Leukemia before passing away in 2022. They were both kind, gracious, bright, and loved people, whom I miss very much. But the fight isn't over. Approximately every 3 minutes, one person in the US is diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma, or myeloma. I joined the LLS Student Visionaries of the Year campaign in honor and memory of my loved ones and in hopes I can bring others the chance to spend more time with their own.

As a global leader in the fight against blood cancer, LLS:

• Funds cutting-edge research leading to breakthroughs in immunotherapy, genomics and personalized medicine that are improving and saving the lives of patients
• Provides free education and support for blood cancer patients and families, including personalized, one-on-one support, assistance with identifying and enrolling in clinical trials, and more.
• Mobilizes thousands of advocates to drive policy changes that accelerate the development of new cancer treatments and break down barriers to care.

Please consider joining this fight by making a donation. All donations are greatly appreciated and tax-deductible. Please visit my website often and tell friends who would also like to donate! Anything helps​​​​​​​. Share the link to friends, family, neighbors, colleagues, etc.

​​​​​​​If you prefer to mail your donation, please make your check out to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and print "SVOY-Keira Distaso" in the "memo" section. The dealine for receiving contributions is February 25th. 

Thanks to your support, my efforts will help ensure this generation is the last to see cancer.

On behalf of blood cancer patients everywhere, thank you!

For more information about LLS, please visit www.lls.org.