Search Results
Team In Training Participant
I joined Team In Training (TNT) in 2012, when I decided I wanted to train and run my first half marathon. Some of my friends had told me about their success with the program, and while I didn't have a personal connection to The Leukemia & Lymphoma (LLS), it was obviously a worthy cause and I felt I could handle the fundraising aspect.
I loved the experience; the training cycle, the coaches, the teammates, and even the fundraising. And they got me across that first finish line.
Who's Who on Your Healthcare Team
A number of healthcare professionals are involved with your care. Your team may include:
Talking With Members of Your Oncology Team
Ask your oncology team about the fertility effects of your treatment. By having this information before treatment begins, you can consider the options most likely to preserve your fertility. You can also ask for a referral to a fertility specialist to help you understand and explore your options. Fertility specialists include:
How Patients Really Feel About Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
It seems that everywhere we turn lately we hear something about the promises and the perils of artificial intelligence (AI). AI is touted as a smart, efficient tool that can speed and streamline processes, analyze and manage complex data, and cut time and costs.
In the healthcare setting, it has the potential to be used to review and gather medical information quickly, screen for risk of disease and suggest diagnoses, provide second opinions, prevent harmful medication interactions, identify treatment options and clinical trials, reduce patient wait times, and much more.
From office to Andes: LLS CFO takes the mission to new heights
JR Miller at Palomani Pass, the highest point on the Ausangate trek in Peru at 5,200 meters (17,060 feet)
After 25 years of service to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), JR Miller has seen the mission from nearly every angle – donor, volunteer, fundraiser, advocate, and executive. But this year, he added something new to that list: trekker.
4 Perspectives on How Nonprofits Help
If you want to change the world, there’s more than one way to do it. You could start in your community, helping friends and neighbors. You could also turn to a nonprofit organization—as a volunteer, donor, advocate, or even by joining the staff—to widen your impact.
We know a lot of changemakers at The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS). Passionate, amazing people who work hard to help us make life better for blood cancer patients, survivors, and their families. They know that we can make the most progress toward a world without blood cancer together.
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 committed to changing the world for blood cancer patients and their families.
Pan-heme CAR: Anti-CD38 CAR T cells for myeloid, lymphoid and plasma cell malignancies
Our SCOR team has a razor-sharp focus on an exciting new treatment modality for blood cancers: chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells. T cells can be trained to target cancer cells by genetic modification. In fact, previous support from the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society allowed us to successfully develop CAR T cells targeted to CD19, a pan-B cell marker.
Volunteers: The Engine Powering LLS’s Mission
I was always aware that volunteers with The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) drive impact for blood cancer patients and families. But it wasn’t until Thanksgiving Day 2007 that I discovered the full force of their power. My wife, Holly, had recently been diagnosed with follicular lymphoma and our family was still reeling from the news. She was feeling quite ill, and we were exhausted with worry and trying to keep life as normal as possible for our two young children.
Defining and Redefining a Blood Cancer Diagnosis
Science historian June Goodfield wrote, “Cancer begins and ends with people.”
This Blood Cancer Awareness Month, it’s important to know that The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is on a mission to cure blood cancers and improve quality of life for the nearly 1.7 million people in the U.S. living with or in remission from blood cancer.
LLS is all about people—an organization full of people who are united in the urgent effort to help every person impacted by blood cancer.
Exercise for blood cancer patients
Table of contents:
Georgia
Today I would like to give thanks to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. With the fantastic staff, and volunteers we have truly come so far. As an ALL survivor, Team In Training Alumni, and participant it is so amazing to see what we have all done for blood cancer patients and their families.
Alexis
CANCER, that one word that sits like a lump in the back of your throat making you unable to swallow...
I was in sixth grade when my hero, my dad, was diagnosed with hairy cell leukemia.
Over the years, my dad has gone through his fair share of chemotherapy. Usually after treatment, his cancer became dormant, and then resurfaced a few years later. The dreadful "process" would repeat itself, getting a little harder each time as his body became resistant to the therapy.
Alison & Keith
This is a love story about two Team In Training honorees, Alison and Keith. Keith has been a recreational runner for many years and first learned of Team In Training (TNT) as a fundraising sponsor for a friend. Upon his diagnosis of follicular lymphoma in 2008, Keith says he knew right away that direct involvement with TNT was an obvious step; he became an honoree for the South Bay and Peninsula run teams during his initial chemotherapy treatments, and ran with the teams every few weeks in that first “honoree season.”
Johanna
I am a teacher from Texas. My journey to Team and Training wasn’t immediate. I moved to Texas from Louisiana. When I moved to Texas, I decided to start running to meet people and to help with my homesickness.
Chris
When I started this journey six years ago, I never would have imagined I would take part in TEN Team In Training events, but losing a great friend can motivate you to do incredible things.
Rachel
Rachel was diagnosed with stage 4B Hodgkin lymphoma in February 2015. She was 26 years old. The moment when her oncologist first spoke the words “you have cancer” were surreal to her. She looked to her parents who exchanged the same look of disbelief and shock, then quickly looked away before fear and sadness settled across their faces. Her mind started to race, “How am I stage 4? I don’t feel that sick. This has to be a mistake, where did this even come from? What happens now?”
Lynette
It all started with a race... I began running back in 2011 with the sole purpose of losing weight. I joined a running group and became interested in races, specifically the Nike Women's Half Marathon.
Kathie & Dave
Dave and I have been a part of The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) since 1998. I can’t even remember how many Team In Training events we’ve done. We have both done at least one a year if not more since Michael, our son, was diagnosed.
This picture explains it all. Michael was 5 years old when he was diagnosed and of about 10 kids going through treatment with him at the time, I think only he and another are still here today. I know the statistics should be better but that’s the reality for us.
Volunteer
It all began in 2010 after my friend Cara and I ran the LA Marathon. We had already trained on our own for the 26.2 miles race. I thought, “Why not just keep running?” That’s when I found the nonprofit The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and their fundraising program called Team In Training (TNT)! TNT was the only program you could volunteer with to get a secured race entry into the San Francisco Nike Women's Marathon. So, I registered for an informational meeting at the mall near my parents' house, listened to the staff and coaches, as well as a survivor, and I was hooked.
Jaimie Potvin
Finding cures for cancer is especially close to my heart. In 2011, my brother, Cory was diagnosed with large B-cell lymphoma. Our dad was already a two-time survivor of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, so we truly believed he would survive blood cancer too. When his treatment showed no signs of improvement, it was devastating. Cory died six years ago and I still miss him so much every single day.
Shirley
The Boston Marathon marked my 33rd fundraiser for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), the 27th race with Team In Training (TNT), and the 6th Abbott World Marathon Major. With the support of amazing friends, teammates, and colleagues, I reached a lifelong goal—raising over $126,200 for LLS personally and over $1.6 million with the incredible teams I’ve been part of throughout the years, such as Team Child and Dynamite Runners.Inspired by my best friend, Christy, who donated her bone marrow to save her sister's life, I joined LLS as an intern in 2017.