Katiera’s Cause: Cancer has impacted my life in many ways. Sadly, I have lost many family members to cancer, specifically liver cancer and colon cancer, among others. I lost my grandfather in August of 2020 to liver cancer. He had only been diagnosed 2 months earlier in June 2020. When my Aunt Pat was 50, she was diagnosed with lymphoma. She was fortunate to win her battle, with the cancer going into remission twice. My sister ran for student of the year in 2020 and I saw the positive impact this experience had on her life. Her experience has inspired me commit to helping in any way I can, which is why I am participating in this effort. I am hopeful that with support from across our community we will find a cure for cancer and provide a brighter future for all those battling it.

Katelyn’s Cause: Unfortunately, cancer has personally impacted my family and close friends of my family.  My grandmother was diagnosed with adenocarcinoma in her lungs in 2011.  Through surgery and multiple treatments, she fought her battle against this terrible disease for 3 years.  In 2014 she lost her battle but remained vigilant right up to the end.  My dad’s Best Man was diagnosed with mucosal melanoma, which is a rare form of melanoma.  While most melanomas occur in the skin, mucosal melanomas occur in the mucous membranes inside of the body.  Sadly, at the young age of 50, he too lost his battle in 2020.  Cancer knows no boundaries and shows no limitation with it impact.  I am committed to helping raise money to fund additional research aimed at finding a cure for all types of cancer.

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