We are blessed in the Northwest with some of the world’s best treatment, technology, and resources to battle blood cancer. Director Brian Druker and his staff at Oregon Health & Science University Knight Cancer Institute are on the leading edge with treatments they have developed that are saving thousands of lives every day.
But not every patient responds to those treatments and eventually they succumb to the ravages of either the disease or the more traditional treatments — chemo, radiation, bone marrow transplants. I know, because my wife, Margareta, fought for seven years before finally losing the battle this past April.
Survival rates are improving every day but we can’t stop until they reach 100 percent. We need to keep funding critical cancer research to improve personalized treatments, develop medications with fewer side effects, and keep advancing cures.
Join me to help blood cancer patients live longer, better lives by advancing cures and improving access to treatments — take action with The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society at lls.org/advocacy.
