we did it!

What a surprise and a terrific honor to be named the 2015 Woman of the Year!  Thank you to everyone who contributed their time, love, support and dollars to this amazing cause – as of the night of the event we raised $93,691!  The entire group raised over $1M dollars! I’m filled with gratitude for…

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do one more thing: be the match

Be The Match: Hope for patients with leukemia, lymphoma, blood cancer and sickle cell disease I’m a part of the National Bone Marrow Registry. You too could save a life today, tomorrow, or sometime in the future.  My mom received two stem cell transplants in her treatment, and alleogenic (donor) transplants are often used to…

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new advances in treatment offer hope for patients of all ages

disabled HIV virus used to treat common childhood leukemia By Melinda Carstensen Published December 08, 2014 | FoxNews.com Scientists at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have invented an immunotherapy that has successfully treated children diagnosed with a highly aggressive form of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). For the therapy, which began its clinical trial two…

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how your dollars make a difference!

Your donations are absolutely critical.  Blood cancers can affect anyone—men, women and children.  An estimated 1,129,813 people in the US are living with, or are in remission from leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma. Every three minutes,someone new is diagnosed. Every ten minutes, someone dies. Leukemia still causes more deaths than any other cancer among children. While…

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