Carly Wilhoite, Bella Dillhoff, and Morgan Wheeler have accepted the nomination to be candidates for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Student of the Year fundraising campaign.  The Students of the year campaign is a seven-week fundraising, leadership and development program for high school students that focuses on developing young leaders in the community while they raise funds for LLS.  This year’s campaign runs from February 17^th - April 9^th, 2021.

We are writing today to ask for your support of our efforts to help LLS find a cure for blood cancers and to assist patients and families as they battle these diseases.  LLS is uniquely able to report on the many advances and accomplishments that have occurred since their founding in 1949.  From cutting-edge research and precision medicine innovations to legislative victories that improve access to therapies for cancer patients, LLS plays a leading- and often pioneering- role in the fight against blood cancers.  Since 2000, approximately 40 percent of all U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA) approved cancer drugs were for blood cancer, and some are now used to treat other forms of cancer and non-malignant diseases.  A “win” for blood cancers, therefore, is a win for the cancer community overall. 

We have all been touched by cancer in some way or another. May that be through friends, colleagues, classmates, or even your loved ones. All three of us have had the great fortune of not experiencing first hand a cancer diagnosis, but it is because of our connection to the people around us that drove us to accept this nomination and fight for a cure. We fight for Morgan's grandmother who was diagnosed with lung cancer, and unfortunately lost her battle in the spring of 2016. We fight for Grant Wolf, a little boy from Loveland who was battling brain cancer at just the age of seven, and sadly passed away. We fight to help all of those who have fought or are still fighting the good fight against blood cancer.

With your support, and continued collaboration among researchers, doctors, advocacy organizations, pharmaceutical companies, regulators and patients, we are on our way to conquering cancer once and for all.  Please join the team and help us all fight cancer.

Please visit our 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