I hope you are well to whom is reading this! I am a senior form Franklin High School, and my team and I have been nominated as candidates for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) Students of the Year Campaign. For seven weeks, starting February 14, 2020, our team, Team Med, will be raising important funds to support the research that aim to cure blood cancer, patient support and advocacy of LLS. 

Did you know that over 1.2 million people in the Unites States are living with, or are in remission from blood cancer?  In all likelihood a blood cancer diagnosis has drastically impacted the life of a family member, a co-worker or a friend of yours.  Thanks to research and patient services efforts funded by The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), the survival rate for these individuals has greatly increased and the quality of life for patients has vastly improved. On behalf of LLS, we would like to invite your business to join in the fight against blood cancers through LLS’s Students of the Year campaign.  

The funds raised for Leukemia Lymphoma & Society will be put towards cancer research specifically blood cancer, it will be spent on patients to help patients pay for treatments and clinical trials, also, to develop a cure for blood cancer and to save peoples' lives who has blood cancer living in our community! 

I am honored to participate as a team member for the 2020 Students of the Year program, a seven-week initiative in which select high school students from around the country participate in a fundraising competition to benefit The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. I am proud to support my candidate and am raising critical dollars in honor of a young patient hero who is currently battling or is in remission from a blood cancer. Each dollar is a vote. The candidate team that raises the most money at the end of the seven weeks is named Student of the Year. Our mission is to not only raise the most money but also to bring attention to blood cancers like leukemia, which is the most common form of cancer in children and teens.

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.