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Burlington Stores & LLS Partner to Raise Funds to Fight Cancer
Campaign Launch Set for September, Blood Cancer Awareness Month
White Plains, NY (September 9, 2015) – Today, Burlington Stores and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) are excited to announce the launch of their 2015 Light the Night Walk fundraising campaign, helping to fund lifesaving blood cancer research to advance new treatments and cures. For the first time, the campaign’s launch...
LLS Names Grant in Honor of Late Physician/Scientist Robert Arceci
Contact: Andrea Greif
(914) 821-8958
andrea.greif@lls.org
White Plains, NY (September 2, 2015) – The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is proud to honor the memory of the late renowned hematologic oncologist Robert Arceci, M.D., Ph.D., by presenting a grant in his name to a young emerging scientist.
Dr. Arceci, a physician/scientist who served as a clinical advisor for LLS and researche...
Proof of Impact: Making Progress Toward a World Without Blood Cancers
Contact: Marcie Klein
(914) 821-8205
marcie.klein@lls.org
White Plains, NY (Aug. 31, 2015) – The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), the world's leading voluntary non-profit dedicated to blood cancers, released 30 “proof points” -- one for each day of September, Blood Cancer Awareness Month -- to demonstrate its impact on the cancer landscape and progress towards a world without blood cancer...
LLS's Light The Night Walk Teams: Powerful Partnerships that Help Save Lives
White Plains, NY: Aug. 27, 2015 – The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is working with thousands of national partners, sponsors and corporate teams to fund lifesaving research and support for people battling cancer through the Light The Night® Walk (www.LightTheNight.org). Together with LLS, the Light The Night National Corporate Partner Teams are raising awareness and making a positive impact on the li...
LLS Applauds Data From Phase 2 Study of Venetoclax for High-Risk CLL Patients
White Plains, N.Y. (August 19, 2015) – The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) welcomes the news that an investigational therapy to treat patients with a high-risk subset of chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) has shown very positive results in a Phase II clinical trial. There are more than 126,000 patients in the United States currently living with CLL, a typically slow-moving blood cancer that begins in the b...
Valor Biotherapeutics to Begin Phase 1 Clinical Study of Novel Lymphoma Therapy
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society has partnered with Valor Biotherapeutics and committed $6 million to advance this therapy into a Phase 1 clinical study
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society
Contact: Andrea Greif
Tel: (914) 821-8958
Cell: (914) 772-3027
andrea.greif@lls.org
Valor Biotherapeutics/ImmunGene
Contact: Leah Grant
Tel: (206) 660-4003
leahgra...
RECORD-BREAKING 25TH YEAR FOR LLS’S MAN & WOMAN OF THE YEAR CAMPAIGN
Contact: Kristin Hoose
(914) 821-8973
kristin.hoose@lls.org
-COMMUNITY LEADERS RAISED $32 MILLION TO HELP FIND CANCER CURES-
White Plains, NY (July 28, 2015) – They say “Everything’s bigger in Texas,” and “The city so nice they named it twice,” to describe Texas and New York, and two dynamic fundraisers in Texas and New York City proved them right by raising a combined total of a...
LLS Applauds House Approval of 21st Century Cures Act
Contact: Andrea Greif
(914) 821-8958 (p)
(914) 772-3027 (c)
andrea.greif@lls.org
White Plains, N.Y. (July 10, 2015) – The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) commends the U.S. House of Representatives for today’s overwhelming approval of the 21st Century Cures Act. This law, if enacted by the full Congress, will significantly speed access to new lifesaving therapies for blood cancer pati...