Students of the Year Western New York

Lainie Smith | Team Crushing Cancer

Lainie's Students of the Year Fundraiser

Feb 12, 2021

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      

Thank you for visiting my fundraising page, welcome to Team Crushing Cancer!      

I could not be happier to have you joining me in supporting The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) by making a donation to my fundraising campaign. By donating to LLS, you are supporting 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. I thank you from the very bottom of my heart!

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. Their signature fundraising campaigns drive critical support for its mission, including a nearly $1.3 billion investment in cutting edge cancer research worldwide. Since the 1960s, survival rates for many blood cancer patients have doubled, tripled, or even quadrupled. Thanks to the growing survival rates, people such as my team leader Bethany are able to beat cancer and live on to fight until it no longer exists. 

Every aspect 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. As a community, we strive to beat cancer, honoring all of our loved ones who have been affected by it.

         

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 all cancer patients, their families, and surviors, I thank you a thousand times over. You are the reason LLS can continue to save lives and provide support for countless families struggling with the effects of cancer. You are truly remarkable. 

This campaign is in honor of my team leader Bethany who was diagnosed with Lymphoma only a year ago and is currently in remission, as well as in memory of my Aunt Diane who passed away in August of 2019 after a long and well-fought battle with bladder cancer. To all of those out there who have been affected by cancer, both as a patient or as a loved one to a patient, my heart goes out to you. 

For more information about LLS, please visit lls.org                            

 

6 Comments

  • Mike Musial

    We have to find a cure for this terrible disease.

  • Thomas & Anne Smith

    I am proud, as Lainie's grandmother to donate to this worthy cause. As a Leukemia/Lymphoma Clinical and Bone Marrow Transplant Nurse for twenty Five years, I know how vital research and support of Individuals stricken with these Diseases is.

  • Michelle Burtis

    Praying for a cure!

  • James & Susann Musial

    We are very proud of our granddaughter, Lainie, and her teammates' efforts to combat this awful disease. So many lives have been lost to cancer and so many families impacted by it. It is our hope that Lainie's generation will conquer this disease.

  • Sue Sicurella

    Great job Lanie!

  • Dr. Darren Forcier

    We are honored to donate to this worthy cause. Cancer is something that affects all of us. Thank you for the opportunity, Laine, and great job on on your fundraising efforts, your leadership and your selfless service to help battle this terrible disease. - Dr. Forcier

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