4ngiefest helps the leukemia and lymphoma society
A little about Leukemia and Lymphoma. 4ngiefest is put together every for one purpose. To drive donations to the LLS. We strongly support their work, and encourage everyone –whether they have been personally affected or know someone who has, or even just wants to help– to attend 4ngiefest, and help this event grow. Helping 4ngiefest is helping the LLS and helping stop the disease.
An Excerpt from the LLS Website:
Leukemia, Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma, myeloma and myelodysplastic syndromes are cancers that originate in the bone marrow or lymphatic tissues. They are considered to be related cancers because they involve the uncontrolled growth of cells with similar functions and origins. The diseases result from an acquired genetic injury to the DNA of a single cell, which becomes abnormal (malignant) and multiplies continuously. The accumulation of malignant cells interferes with the body’s production of healthy blood cells.
New Cases
An estimated 138,530 people in the United States will be diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma in 2008. New cases of leukemia, Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma and myeloma account for 9.6 percent of the 1,437,180* new cancer cases diagnosed in the United States this year.
*Source: Surveillance, Epidemiology and End Results (SEER) Program 1975-2005, National Cancer Institute, 2008.
Deaths
Leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma will cause the deaths of an estimated 52,910 people in the United States this year. These blood cancers will account for nearly 9.4 percent of the deaths from cancer in 2008 based on the 565,650 total cancer-related deaths.
Every ten minutes, another child or adult is expected to die from leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma. This statistic represents nearly 145 people each day, or six people every hour.
Leukemia causes more deaths than any other cancer among children and young adults under the age of 20.
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