We are only 8 days away from the end of the 2020 SOY Campaign! Thank you for all of your support these past 7 weeks. Team Hope has come a long way, but there is still more to do! We are short of our goal so this week we are really trying to push. Please consider donating or sharing this webpage with your friends and family! 

Recently, Team Hope was able to create a Build-a-Bear with Portia, our honored hero. Portia was diagnosed with Leukemia when she was 2 and she is 4 now. This means that for half her life all she's known is treatments and therapies. Portia was able to ring the bell at the Children's Hospital in late January to symbolize her completion of treatments. It's stories like Portia's that make me so dedicated to the SOY Campaign and raising money for the LLS.

I am honored to participate in 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 be a 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.