Your support means a lot...to me and to thousands of others.
Thanks for visiting my Light The Night homepage. I am walking for my friend Michelle who passed away July 21, 2007. She had more life inside her than most people ever will and the world just isn't as fun without her in it anymore. My goal says $400 and I will be pretty disapointed if I don't blow that number out of the water. So please donate whatever you can.
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's Light The Night Walk is the nation's night to pay tribute and bring hope to thousands of patients battling blood cancers and to commemorate loved ones lost.
The Society funds lifesaving cancer research that has contributed to major advances in the treatment of blood cancers and many other types of cancer treatments such as chemotherapy and stem cell transplants that have prolonged and enhanced the lives of patients. New targeted therapies that kill cancer cells without harming normal tissue have already begun to provide drugs and procedures that are improving quality of life.
But more research is critically needed:
- Every five minutes someone is diagnosed with blood cancer. Every ten minutes, someone dies.
- Leukemia causes more deaths among children than any other cancer
- More than 20,000 Americans died from lymphoma in 2006
- The survival rate for myeloma is just 33 per cent
Please make a donation to support my Light The Night Walk and help save lives. Be sure to check my Web site frequently to see my progress, and again, thanks for your support!
Don't forget to donate blood, get your blood checked out often and drink some margaritas!!!
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