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High Hopes: How a Rising Star Basketball Player’s Story is Bringing Light to the Darkness of Cancer
Each year, from September to November, thousands of illuminated lanterns light up the sky across the country as part of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s Light The Night fundraising campaign – all to end cancer. For one rising star basketball player and Light The Night Honored Hero, Maurice Smith, taking steps to end cancer gave him, and so many others, high hopes for a brighter future.
Ibritumomab tiuxetan
Ibritumomab tiuxetan is FDA approved to treat people who have relapsed or refractory, low-grade or follicular non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL), including patients with follicular NHL that did not respond to therapy with rituximab. It is also FDA approved to treat patients with previously untreated follicular NHL who achieve a partial or complete response to first-line chemotherapy. This drug is a monoclonal antibody with an attached radioisotope to deliver radiation therapy to the lymphoma cells.
Beyond Blankets: Subaru Loves to Care brings comfort and warmth
Blood cancer treatment can be a scary and confusing time. And blood cancer patients want to feel like they’re not alone.
That’s why The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) and Subaru are partnering to bring warmth and comfort to blood cancer patients through warm blankets, patient care kits, and handwritten notes of encouragement.
Statement on the Death of Supreme Court Justice and Trailblazer Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Photo by Nikki Khan/The Washington Post via Getty Images
Here at The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), we are devastated to learn of the passing of Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg from complications of metastatic pancreatic cancer. As the global leader in the fight against blood cancer, we stand with the cancer community – and all Americans – in mourning this trailblazer whose contributions to public health and equality will be felt by generations to come.
FDA Approves First CAR T-Immunotherapy for Relapsed/Refractory Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently announced approval of brexucabtagene autoleucel (Tecartus®) as the first and only CAR T-cell treatment for adults with relapsed or refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Roughly half of all ALL cases occur in adults, and unlike pediatric ALL, adults have historically had a poor prognosis. This approval, which follows an FDA Breakthrough Therapy Designation and priority review, is a meaningful advance for these patients.
Targeting AML
Not for lack of trying, we’ve seen very little progress over the past 40 years in treating acute myeloid leukemia (AML), an aggressive and deadly blood cancer. But we’re finally starting to see the needle move and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is playing a leading role in going on the offensive against the disease.
Carmustine
Carmustine is FDA approved to treat people who have myeloma (in combination with prednisone); relapsed or refractory Hodgkin lymphoma (as secondary therapy in combination with other approved drugs in patients who relapse while being treated with primary therapy or who fail to respond to primary therapy); relapsed or refractory non-Hodgkin lymphoma (as secondary therapy in combination with other approved drugs).
Burlington Launches Point of Sale Campaign to Benefit LLS September - December
"A Style for Every Smile” – LLS Kicks Off National PR Campaign to Support #1 Partner Burlington
A New Meaning to Mother's Day
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Meet an LLS Advocacy Volunteer: Amanda Steffy
Amanda Steffy of Pasadena, Calif. is one of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society’s most passionate policy advocates. She frequently travels to Washington, D.C. to speak with lawmakers about the importance of high-quality, affordable healthcare for cancer patients. In California, where she works as an instrument systems engineer for NASA JPL, she recruits and teaches others to do the same.
This May, Steffy joins LLS for its first-ever virtual advocacy event. In this interview, Steffy explains how she first became involved in advocacy and why she’s so passionate about the work.
LLS & BURLINGTON: CREATING A BRIGHTER TOMORROW FOR BLOOD CANCER PATIENTS
Each September, during Blood Cancer Awareness Month, Burlington and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) team up to create awareness for the urgent need to fund research to advance cancer cures for the nearly 1.3 million people in the U.S. are living with, or are in remission from a blood cancer.
Characterization and Targeting of Tumor-Associated Monocytes/ Macrophages that Limit the Efficacy of PD-1 Blockade in Lymphoma
Inhibition of the PD-1 exhaustion pathway enables the immune system to attack cancers. PD-1 blockade is now a standard treatment for relapsed classic Hodgkin Lymphoma (cHL) and a component of experimental frontline therapy. In patients with cHL, a newly identified population of monocytes/macrophages limits the efficacy of PD-1 blockade. We will characterize and target these tumor-programmed monocytes/macrophages for therapeutic benefit in patients with cHL and other lymphoid malignancies.BURLINGTON STORES RAISES RECORD-BREAKING $5.1 MILLION FOR LLS
Burlington Stores and The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) joined forces for the 17th consecutive year to help save lives and bring smiles to those touched by blood cancer. From September 9 through December 1, Burlington’s more than 670 locations nationwide encouraged customers to donate $1 or more at checkout to support LLS’s goal to create a world without blood cancer. This campaign, combined with Burlington’s corporate associate fundraising efforts, raised a record smashing $5.1 million for LLS, helping the organization fund lifesaving research and treatments.