Some Interesting Facts

1.“Approximately every 3 minutes, one person in the United States is diagnosed with a blood cancer”

2.“Approximately every 10 minutes, someone in the US dies from a blood cancer.  This statistic represents nearly 152 people each day or more than six people every hour”

3.”Leukemia causes more deaths than any other cancer among children under the age of 20.”

4.”Lymphomas are the most common blood cancers and incidence increases with age.”

5.”The survival rate of myeloma is only 41.1%.  Incidence is nearly twice as high among African Americans as for all other races.”

6.”Survival rates for many blood cancer patients have doubled, tripled and even quadrupled since 1960.”

7.”LLS has invested more than 1 Billion to date in research to find cures for blood cancers patients.”

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