Despite progress, more than a third of blood cancer patients still do not survive five years after their diagnosis.
No donation is too small. Please share and let’s help lower that number to zero.
Category Archives: Fundraising
Our efforts to raise funds to help fight blood cancer
Someday Is Today, Days 10 and 11
So I missed last night thanks to a heavy dose of 11 year old birthday party and college football. However, today is so full of emotions for us that it can easily count for at least two days. Today is the 7 year anniversary of Cutler’s diagnosis of Acute Myeloid Leukemia. Combined with the terrorist attacks 8 years prior, this day is always pretty heavy on our hearts and helps serve as a strong reminder as to why we raise funds and awareness. I believe a post that I put together in 2014 says it better than I will ever be able to say it again…
No donation too small when you realize that it is going towards stopping anyone from having to go through this experience in the future.
http://pages.lightthenight.org/gat/StLouis16/teamcutler
I just read the post again and those damn emotions are rising up again. Please do consider a donation of any size. Thank you to those that have already donated, please consider sharing with your friends and family. No one should ever have to fight this fight and feel these emotions. Yes, we won the fight, but there are still too many having to fight that fight.
To avoid ending this post on a somber note, here is a photo of a healthy champion from tonight’s baseball game. I love that smile!
Someday is Today, Day 9
And our tough 7 year old is one of them. No donation is too small!
Someday Is Today, Day 8
Here is a quick video to help further explain why we do Light The Night…
Any size donation is greatly appreciated!
Someday Is Today, Day 7
LLS is currently funding almost 300 different research projects searching for a cure.
A donation of any size would help them grow this number even further.
Someday Is Today, Day 5
Leukemia is the most common cancer in children, adolescents and young adults younger than 20 years.
Any size donation is greatly appreciated and many thanks to those that have already given.
http://pages.lightthenight.org/gat/StLouis16/teamcutler
Someday Is Today, Day 4
Radical progress like this is one of many incredible efforts at least partially funded by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6SzI2ZfPd4
No donation is too small…
Someday Is Today! Day 3 of Blood Cancer and Childhood Cancer Awareness Month
The overall five-year relative survival rate for leukemia has more than quadrupled since 1960.
From 1960 to 1963, the five-year relative survival rate for patients with leukemia was 14 percent. From 1975 to 1977, the five-year relative survival rate for the total population with leukemia was 34.1 percent, and from 2005 to 2011, the overall relative survival rate was 61.7 percent.
Research funded by the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society has been a major player in this effort. What was once practically a death sentence is now a promising fight with the odds in your favor.
No donation is too small!
http://pages.lightthenight.org/gat/StLouis16/teamcutler
Thank you for everyone who has donated already! Please feel free to share!
Someday is Today!
Every 9 minutes, someone in the US dies from a blood cancer.
Please consider donating no matter how small. Someday is Today!
Child Cancer/Blood Cancer Awareness Month
Every month is set aside to be a specific awareness month for one cancer or another, September happens to be the busiest month of all 12 months focusing in on five different cancers including blood cancers (leukemia/lymphoma) as well as it is the Child Cancer awareness month. So, in order to kick off this month right, I am here to remind you of our upcoming Light The Night Walk helping raising funds to help grow awareness, patient and family support, and most importantly help eradicate this nasty disease. My goal for the month of September, aside from raising funds is to provide you with a fact per day helping you see the true impact that cancer has across the world while mixing in the successes that the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society has helped drive.
Fact 1 of 30:
Every 3 minutes someone in the United States is diagnosed with a blood cancer.
Someday we hope this number will lesson. Please consider donating no matter how small. Someday is Today!
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