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Myeloma Awareness Month-Research Highlight: Changing the Landscape of Treatment for Multiple Myeloma (Part 2)

For the final installment of this series focusing on myeloma research, we will review advances in immunotherapies for myeloma. The most exciting curre…

Celebrating Survivorship: Chase Malone

I am a Hodgkin’s Lymphoma survivor. It took me months to build up the courage to share my story. But if my story inspires even just one other patient…

LLS Information Specialists Contribute to Choosing Therapy Article on Cancer & Depression

Sharon Cohan, LCSW and Information Specialist for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, states, “One of the biggest myths is that everyone diagnosed with c…

LLS Launches National Patient Registry: Become a Citizen Scientist!

If you are a blood cancer patient, survivor, caregiver in the United States, or know someone who is, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) needs your …

LLS and 30 patient organizations take action to protect patients from substandard insurance

Health insurance is supposed to protect patients when they need help the most. When it works for patients the way it’s supposed to, it keeps their cos…

Celebrating Survivorship: Haider Albaldawy

I was diagnosed with lymphoma in . It was the most difficult day of my life because I was alone in the USA at this time; I had no friends. I did not …

RESEARCH HIGHLIGHT: BREAKTHROUGHS IN ACUTE MYELOID LEUKEMIA

April 21st was AML Awareness Day! Recent breakthroughs have led to unprecedented new treatment approvals for AML. In this highlight, we focus on some …

Supreme Court ruling is a win for patients

The U.S. Supreme Court dismissed a challenge to the Affordable Care Act brought by states that oppose the landmark law. This is a win for blood cance…

Celebrating Survivorship: Jennifer Lingo

I remember diagnosis clearly. I was sitting in the UCSF doctor’s office of a man I had not met before; a physician I was referred to. I had first gone…

Celebrating Survivorship: Jennifer Dorkin

In May of I had just returned to work as a special education teacher after recovering from the lingering effects of a coma caused by quadruple pneumo…

July 2021 Patient Education Programs

Fueling Your Body Through Movement and Nutrition A Virtual Education Program (Metro New York Region) July , :00pm – :30pm (ET) http://bit.ly/ YA Sur…

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Just three days after Christmas, my world was turned upside down. I was admitted to the hospital because I was unable to keep any food down and felt t…