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Because You Volunteer, Your Impact Creates a Ripple Effect

When you commit time and talent to a nonprofit’s mission – no matter how you choose to get involved – you become a volunteer, and the impact of your e…

Key bill gains major traction in Congress, bringing children with cancer one step closer to faster care

The House Energy and Commerce Committee unanimously passed the Accelerating Kids' Access to Care Act. It's a key step toward the bill becoming law and…

FAQs: Proposed federal spending cuts and blood cancer research and care

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) has heard great concerns from patients, caregivers, volunteers, healthcare professionals, researchers, community…

Healing Happens Around The Dinner Table

Too many parents lose their children to blood cancer each year. It’s a devastating experience for families blindsided by the harsh realities of cancer…

What causes acute myeloid leukemia?

Table of contents: What causes acute myeloid leukemia?What is AML?Role of bone marrow and white blood cellsHow leukemia interferes with blood cell cou…

Student trailblazers, part 1: Enterprising teen engineers new way to deliver cancer treatment

One of my favorite things about being Chief Medical Officer of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is getting to meet so many bright young people co…

MY FIRST 100 DAYS AS LLS PRESIDENT & CEO

Dear Friends, I’m just over days into my new role as President & CEO of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) and I want to take this moment to…

The Immune System and Blood Cancer: 4 Things You Need to Know

Immunotherapy uses the power of the immune system to treat blood cancer. Today it is a standard treatment that has a profound effect in some blood can…

How to start accepting help

Keep the door openDon’t say no off the bat. When you’re asked how you are, or someone asks how they can help, you might find yourself reflexively answ…

Leukemia vs. lymphoma: What you need to know

Table of contentsLeukemia vs. Lymphoma: What You Need to KnowWhat Is Leukemia?Organs Affected by LeukemiaWhat Is Lymphoma?Organs Affected by LymphomaD…

Champions in myeloma research, Part 2: A conversation with Suzanne Lentzsch, M.D., Ph.D.

To commemorate both Myeloma Awareness Month and Women’s History Month during March, I’ve been talking with women scientists who are driving discovery…

Honoring My Daughter’s Legacy By Continuing Her Fight

Amanda Monteiro is a leukemia mom, volunteer, and Children's Initiative Ambassador for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), advocate for pediatric c…

Exercise for blood cancer patients

Table of contents:​​Exercise for Blood Cancer Patients​Why is being physically active important for blood cancer patients?​Goals of an exercise progra…

Signs that myelofibrosis is progressing: What to watch for

Table of contents:Signs that myelofibrosis is progressingRecognizing early and advancing signs of myelofibrosisWhat your doctor looks forTreatment imp…

3 Insights from a Clinical Trial Patient

The road to finding new and better cancer treatments often includes an important step: clinical trials. For patients with diseases, these studies can…

Meet The Researcher: Dr. Rayne Rouce

Blood Cancer Survivors Find Special Meaning and Connection as Employee Champions of LLS Light the Night Events

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is proud of our continuing partnership with Gilead and Kite Oncology as the National Presenting Sponsor of Celeb…

Pathways to Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant Continuing Medical Education Rounds

Event Details Thursday, November , :45pm – :30pm ET Click Here to Register * Required Live Event Interactive continuing medical education act…

More than a campaign: centering people with blood cancer

This fall, for the first time in more than a decade, we launched a national advertising campaign not just to share our new name—Blood Cancer United—bu…

How to brighten holidays in the hospital for cancer patients

Cancer treatment doesn’t pause for the holidays. While the world outside is filled with lights and laughter, inside the hospital walls, patients are o…

A race for blood cancer research

Caring about something makes you want to take action. To get moving. And when you care about people with blood cancer, you might feel that pull more u…

Lymphoma diagnosis, survival rate by age, prognosis, and treatment

Table of contents:What is Hodgkin lymphoma? Organs affected by Hodgkin lymphomaHodgkin lymphoma symptoms and early signsWhat is lymphoma?Organs affec…

Bringing Together the CAR T-Cell Therapy Community

It’s easy to think of scientific researchers as existing in a vacuum: spending long days and evenings in a laboratory, making observations that most p…

FDA Approves Novel Car T-Immunotherapy for the Treatment of Multiple Myeloma

Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T is on a roll. Today marks the seventh approval of CAR T therapy since the first approval in . While all prior appro…

Feeling uncertain? Start here.

A blood cancer diagnosis changes your center of gravity. Your or a loved one’s health, and future, is suddenly up in the air. Uncertain. And when outs…