The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (LLS) Minnesota Chapter held their annual fundraiser 'Light The Night' in Minneapolis. This year celebrated my family's 10th year being a team for the event! The fundraiser raised $540,000.00 (and counting). Thank you to everyone who donated. Every donation is appreciated, great things have been achieved by the LLS funded researchers including the following:
LLS reports:
'One of the researchers The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society funds, Dr. Carl June, has started some testing for gene transfer therapy to create T-cells that can kill cancer cells. It is reported that two patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia achieved full remission and one achieved partial remission through this therapy.'
LLS also reports:'Ralph M. Steinman worked for decades to prove that cells he discovered in the immune system were integral to the way the body fended off disease, ultimately using his research to fight his own pancreatic cancer. Steinman was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine, three days after he died. Steinman's discovery of what he named dendritic cells, which regulate and adapt the immune system's defense mechanisms, "laid the foundation for an area of therapy development that's just coming into its own, called immunotherapy," said Louis DeGennaro of The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, which helped fund Steinman's early work.'