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Light The Night® Walks Across the Nation Help to Save Lives
Rye Brook, NY (November 08, 2016) – This fall, communities across the country have been gathering for nearly 175 evening walks as part of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s annual Light The Night® Walk (www.LightTheNight.org). Light The Night Walks raise awareness and funds for blood cancer research and patient support services. The evening walks honor survivors, supporters and loved ones lost to blood cancer...
MD Anderson Starts LLS-Funded Clinical Trial for Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Houston, TX- October 26, 2016 -- The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Institute for Applied Cancer Science (IACS) has initiated the first clinical study of a novel drug designed to starve cancer cells, IACS-10759. The study will enroll patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and is supported by a $3.5 million investment from The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) Therapy Acceleration Progr...
LLS Launches Groundbreaking Precision Medicine Approach to Treat AML
View full multimedia release here View media toolkit here As Announced Yesterday By Vice President Joe Biden, LLS to Lead First-Ever Blood Cancer Master Trial With Unprecedented Collaboration Between World-Renowned Researchers and Medical Centers, Biopharmaceutical Companies and a Leading Genomics Information Company to Advance Treatment for Cancer Affecting 20,000 Americans Annually (Rye Brook, NY...
LLS Introduces Random Acts of Light
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society® Introduces Random Acts of Light To Help Bring Moments of Light To Darkness of Cancer Celebrities Surprise Their Biggest Fans Who Have Been Touched by Blood Cancers Rye Brook, NY (October 6, 2016) – Today, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is introducing Random Acts of Light, a new initiative to ...
Burlington and LLS Join Forces for 15th Year to Raise Funds to Fight Cancer
Rye Brook, NY (September 7, 2016) – Did you know that every three minutes, someone in the U.S. is diagnosed with a blood cancer, and more than 1.2 million people in the U.S. are living with, or in remission from, a blood cancer? Unlike many other diseases, there are no means of preventing or screening for blood cancers. Timed to Blood Cancer Awareness Month, Burlington Stores and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society...
LLS KICKS OFF BLOOD CANCER AWARENESS MONTH
Rye Brook, NY (August 31, 2016) – Team In Training. Light The Night. Man & Woman of the Year. Student Series. Leukemia Cup Regatta. More than 13 million participants in these popular fundraising campaigns last year alone helped The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) invest more than $1 billion since our founding, in research to advance lifesaving treatments and cures for blood cancer patients. For Blood C...
Subaru and LLS Deliver 30,000 Gifts of Comfort and Care to Cancer Patients
Rye Brook, NY (August 5, 2016) - Subaru of America and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) wrapped up their June initiative, Subaru Loves to Care, which literally brought warmth and hope to thousands of patients fighting cancer across the country. The campaign, an extension of Subaru’s Love Promise, helped communities come together to make an incredible impact. Fifty four LLS chapters across the count...
Man & Woman of the Year Sets New Fundraising Record
Rye Brook, NY (July 6, 2016) – What happens when community leaders across the country devote 10 weeks of their time and energy to raise funds to find cures for cancer? Records are broken. The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s (LLS) unique Man & Woman of the Year national campaign winners raised a record-breaking combined total of more than $800,000 for LLS’s goal to find cures for blood cancers and ens...