How your contribution can change the life of a person dealing with cancer.

You may want to learn more about how your contribution will help. Here is some information about what your donation will support.

A donation of $25 provides patients and their loved ones with FREE booklets that contain up-to-date information on their disease and help them make informed decisions about their treatment options.

A donation of $50 makes possible a Family Support group with a trained facilitator where comfort can be found and experiences can be shared among patients and family members.

A donation of $100 helps supply laboratory researchers with supplies and materials critical to carrying out their search for cures.

A donation of $150 provides financial aid to blood cancer patients to use during treatment, regardless of income, diagnosis or duration of treatment. This money can cover everything from transportation to and from treatment to the cost of a bone marrow transplant.

Survival rates for children with acute lymphocytic leukemia, the most common childhood cancer, have risen over the past 40 years from 3% to approximately 90% today; Hodgkin lymphoma patient survival rates have doubled to 86% since the 1960s, and the five-year survival rate has increased from 25% in the mid-seventies to 41% for all myeloma patients, and patients diagnosed in the last decade had a 50% improvement in overall survival.

By now, you’re wondering where you can make a donation… well, you can click on the purple box to the right of this blog and make a donation or go to http://pages.teamintraining.org/wa/lavatri12/jmcgowau5t

Thanks,

in honor of my brother and in memory of those who lost their lives to cancer,

Jack McGowan