Latest Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Stories
ORLANDO, Fla., Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Students across the nation are once again collecting spare change to support the 18th-annual Pasta for Pennies program presented by Olive Garden and benefiting The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's (LLS) School & Youth campaign. Students donated a record $8.4 million during last year's Pasta for Pennies, to bring the total amount collected since the program's inception to more than $61 million. (Logo:...
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Jan. 26, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Thanks to funding from The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), Avila Therapeutics, Inc. has been testing AVL-292, a highly selective Bruton's tyrosine kinsase (Btk) inhibitor in Phase I clinical trials. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110215/NY48642LOGO ) LLS's goal in establishing its collaboration with Avila in 2010 was to help accelerate the development of AVL-292 as a treatment for patients with B-cell blood...
Once a leukemia patient, now she runs NEW YORK, Jan. 7, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Georgia Cleland, now 28, is the little girl who helped spawn an entire running for charity movement - the largest of its kind in the world. A leukemia patient at age 2, when the chance of survival was just 55 percent, today she ran her first half-marathon with Team In Training, the organization her father founded in her honor 23 years ago. She ran the Walt Disney World half-marathon. Thanks...
BURLINGTON, N.J., Jan. 3, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Burlington Coat Factory, a national off price retailer, just completed another record-breaking year in its decade-long partnership with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) through its Light The Night® Walk campaign. Burlington, LLS's top fundraising Light The Night Walk corporate partner, raised close to $3 million this year to support LLS's lifesaving cancer research programs and patient education and support services. Most...
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Dec. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's (LLS) Team In Training (TNT), the world's biggest and most successful charity endurance sports training program, has been voted Best Charity Training Program in the 2011 BEST of Competitor poll. The winners were chosen by votes from Competitor magazine readers. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110215/NY48642LOGO ) TNT won this title in all eight regions where Competitor is...
NEW YORK, Dec. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Six-time Ironman world champ Dave Scott will address a group of athletes tonight to inspire them as they ready themselves for the inaugural Ironman US Championship in New York and New Jersey coming August 11, 2012. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110215/NY48642LOGO ) The athletes are training for the event as members of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's (LLS) Team In Training (TNT) program. While the big event is eight months...
Giving has never been easier… or less expensive. Anytime between now and December 31, 2011, with a simple click on the PlanningFamily.com “Like†button at http://www.facebook.com/planningfamily , PlanningFamily.com will donate $1 to battle pediatric blood cancers to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS). 100% of Donations Directly Benefiting The Fight Against Pediatric Blood Cancer. Costa Mesa, CA (PRWEB) December 09, 2011 Giving has never been easier… or less...
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Dec. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Researchers from around the world will present their findings in blood cancer research at the annual American Society of Hematology (ASH) conference in San Diego December 10-13, 2011. <font size="2" face="Arial">(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110215/NY48642LOGO )</font> New discoveries in immunotherapies, blood cancer stem cells, genomics and molecularly targeted therapies will be among the...
NEW YORK, Dec. 5, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- EHE International has teamed up with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society® (LLS) to support blood cancer research and patient services. For the month of December, the EHE International window at 10 Rockefeller Center will be designated to LLS, spreading awareness about its mission and celebrating those lives touched by cancer. (Logo: <font size="2" face="Arial">http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110215/NY48642LOGO</font> ) More...
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y., Oct. 21, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Make like a vampire this Halloween and bite cancer back by participating in The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society's (LLS) Cancer Bites campaign. Vampire fans are uniting in the fight against cancer by raising money through their personal web pages, where they can post photos of their scariest or kookiest Halloween costumes while raising money from friends and family to support cancer research. Visit www.lls.org/cancerbites to learn more and to...
