Megan's Story

Dear Friends and Family,   

I have been nominated to participate in the Students of the Year Campaign 2021 with the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. High school students across the country learn communication, management, and financial stewardship through raising funds used by LLS for research, advocacy, and access to treatments for blood cancers. I will be competing against other Colorado high schoolers to raise as much money for patients with blood cancers as possible during the campaign donation window of January 7th- February 27th. 

I am truly passionate about raising money for LLS. My maternal grandmother died of Leukemia at age 72 and there was very little treatment for her 25 years ago-she died in less than 6 months. I have a cousin who passed away 5 years ago at the age of 28 after undergoing treatment for 10 years that still even 5 years ago was unable to save his life, only prolong it. In the last year a close family friend of ours was diagnosed with one of the most serious and deadly forms of AML due to a genetic mutation. Two years ago the drug that they used as targeted therapy for her did not even exist. Her survival was directly related to the funding LLS receives to make their highly specialized research possible. She is doing incredibly well and just had a cancer free bone marrow biopsy. I felt as if this was a timely opportunity to donate and grow my talent and efforts. 

Did you Know? 

• Leukemia is the most common diagnosed cancer among children. 
• Since 2017, LLS has fully funded 55 of the last 65 approved blood cancer treatments. 
• LLS has a 97% rating on charitynavigator.com              

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