The Dude Hates Cancer Fundraiser

Thank you for visiting my donations page for “The Dude Hates Cancer!” charity bowling tournament. My teammates and I will be taking to the lanes and bowling for top honors at the bowling tournament on Saturday September 15, 2012, but we’re also competing with the other registered teams to see who can raise the most money for The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society! Anything you can give to help us win this important competition would be greatly appreciated.

The LLS funds life-saving cancer research that has led to major advances in the treatment of blood cancers (and many other cancers), including treatments such as chemotherapy and stem cell transplants that have prolonged and enhanced the lives of patients. New targeted therapies that kill cancer cells without harming normal tissue have already begun to provide drugs and procedures that are improving quality of life.

But more research is critically needed:

• Every five minutes someone is diagnosed with blood cancer. Every ten minutes, someone dies.
• Leukemia causes more deaths than any other cancer among children and young adults under the age of 20
• Leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma will cause the deaths of an estimated 52,910 people in the United States this year
• The survival rate for myeloma is just 33 percent

Please make a donation to support my TDHC team and help save lives. Be sure to check back frequently to see our progress and, again, thanks for your support

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Please support me by visiting http://epa.tdhc2012.llsevent.org/mikethomas

Sincerely,

Mike Thomas

On behalf of The Dude Hates Cancer