Hey everyone!! I am extremely excited to announce that I am candidate for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Student of the Year Campaign. This is a 10 week fundraising competition in which high school students create and lead a team to raise money to support The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. I wanted to post this today to ask for your support of my campaign and LLS’s mission to cure blood cancers such as leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin’s disease and myeloma as well as to improve the quality of life of patients and their families. LLS finds solutions and funds research for cures to Leukemia and Lymphoma as well as other cancers and serious diseases, including brain tumors. 

In 2013, my grandfather, Dr. Irvine Lupo, had his first seizure. After this seizure, doctors discovered that he had an “atypical” Meningioma brain tumor. The hardest part of my life so far was watching his health decline and feeling the pain that he and my family experienced, especially my dad. His health declined slowly but severely. He moved in with us for a while before ultimately ending up in an assisted living facility where he was placed on hospice. He passed away from Myelodysplastic Syndrome, also known as preleukemia, in December of 2017 after a long, four-year fight. In honor of my late grandfather, who we called “Papa Doc”, my team is named “Doing it for Doc”. 

When nominated for Student of the Year, I felt I had a connection to the families of those that have fought and continue to fight these diseases. I am honored to raise money and awareness for this cause. My team and I are excited to partake in this campaign that is so incredible and we hope that you will support us and The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society. Any contribution will be greatly appreciated!

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