Hello, my name is Erica Axtell and I am a junior at Gregori High School in Modesto, CA. I have been given the honor of being chosen to run for The Students of The Year campaign for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society (LLS), to help raise money that goes towards finding a cure for blood cancer. I will be working on this project with my school club, Project Change. Project Change is a service-based club that focuses on local and global acts to better our community. We hope that taking part in this campaign for LLS will help cure cancer in years to come.

Since the early 1960s, five-year survival rates for many blood cancer patients have doubled, tripled or even quadrupled. And many LLS supported therapies not only help blood cancer patients but are helping patients with other cancers and serious diseases. In fact, drugs first approved for blood cancers are now approved to treat patients with stomach cancers, skin cancers, and autoimmune diseases like rheumatoid arthritis.

We really are changing the face of blood cancer!

All donations are greatly appreciated and are tax deductible. They'll not only support LLS-funded research but will help provide critical information and support for patients, and support advocacy for laws to ensure patients can access the care and treatments they need.

Please visit our website often and bring friends who would also like to donate!

On behalf of blood cancer patients everywhere, thank you for your support!

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