Your gift can go twice as far

communityreply@lls.org — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:31:50 GMT

Dear Friend of LLS,

I write today with the good news that The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) has received a research challenge grant.

An anonymous friend of LLS will match $100,000 in donations made by December 31st to support an important research focus—to reduce the long-term and late effects of some intensive cancer treatments.

Cures for some blood cancer patients have increased dramatically in past decades. But treatments that save lives often come with a cost. Too many cancer survivors experience long-term and late effects from their treatments. Some of these effects have an impact on quality of life. Others can be life threatening.

Research for cures for all blood cancer patients must continue. And patients also need therapies that are less harmful but at least as effective as the best therapies we have today. This matching challenge will help move us in that direction.

Please take advantage of this challenge and double the impact of your gift by December 31st. Your donation of $25 will become $50; your gift of $50 will become $100. Whatever you give will go twice as far. Please take advantage of this challenge.

Thank you again for your valued support.

Best of health,

John E. Walter
President & CEO

2008 at The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society

communityreply@lls.org — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 20:43:44 GMT

As with every year at The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), our staff and volunteers work hard to provide the highest quality services and events as possible, as well as to advocate on behalf of blood cancer patients and fund critical research.

Here are some interesting highlights from 2008 to remind you of what we've worked to accomplish:

Our Patient Services group did it again by offering more than 20 free telephone education programs to patients, caregivers, and medical professionals around the globe. These programs featured expert speakers who talked about topics ranging from Advocating for Your Child's Learning Needs: Through Treatment and Beyond to Tomorrow's Therapies Today: Clinical Trials for Leukemia, Lymphoma & Myeloma. Find out what free programs are available for registration now by going to the National Education Programs web page now.
Speaking of clinical trials, LLS now supports a free clinical trial service that enables blood cancer patients to find clinical trials more easily. Patients can also call the Information Resource Center at (800) 955-4572 if they need assistance while using the system. Learn more about TrialCheck® at our website today.
Our local chapters have been hard at work in the communities they serve. The Chapter Education Programs reached 48,000 patients and caregivers in 2008. Our Family Support Groups, also a community-based program, reached 12,000 participants in 2008. Find out more about this program.
Aside from launching The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Blog (this blog that you're reading right now), we also launched The Light The Night Walk Blog. Read about inspiring people and fundraising successes there.
LLS now offers more than 50 different up-to-date free booklets, fact sheets and brochures on blood cancer, treatment and support topics. Most are available in Spanish, as well. Browse our Free Materials section and download or order your free copies today.
LLS awarded a new Marshall A. Lichtman Specialized Center of Research (SCOR) grant to Beverly Mitchell, M.D., George E. Becker Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. She and her team will receive $1.25 million a year for five years, for a total of $6.25 million. Learn more about this award, and what Dr. Mitchell and her team are researching.

There's so much more that we've done over the last year (lots of events, new booklets and fact sheets, not to mention, introduce our new president and CEO, John Walter), and we're still going strong even as the year is coming to a close.

As we look to 2009, we realize that there's so much that we still need to be doing in the fight against blood cancers, but we can't do it without the support of our donors. We know that so many of you receive countless requests from other charities and non-profits at this time of year, but if you have been personally affected by a blood cancer then you understand the value of what The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society offers. Your secure tax-deductible online donation will help us to be able to continue to offer the services and events that are critically needed by patients, caregivers and survivors in 2009.

Every little bit helps. Donate to LLS today.

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2008 at The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society