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The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) invites you to participate in our tenth annual Light The Night® Walk!
Join our unique evening Walk that celebrates and commemorates lives touched by cancer. Participants carry illuminated red balloons and survivors and patients carry illuminated white balloons, signifying their courage in battling these dreaded diseases.
Anyone can participate. Children, adults and seniors are all welcome. This is a casual walk with no fitness requirements.
Your involvement will help bring us one step closer to a cure!
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The Light The Night Walk is a fun, family evening event with face painters, balloon artists, special guest celebrities, live music, great food and more! You will hear stories of triumph and inspiration from patients and their families. At dusk, after a moment of silence for those touched by blood cancers, we'll begin our Walk. Dedication banners decorated with personal messages from participants will be carried by patients leading the Walk.
The chapter is proud to host Walks at six convenient locations throughout northern and central New Jersey in 2008.
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Check-in for all Walks begin at 5:30 P.M.
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All Walks begin promptly at 7:00 P.M.
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Saturday, September 27th
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Pier A, Hoboken
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Giralda Farms, Madison
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Presbyterian Church, Westfield
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Saturday, October 4th
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Colonial Park, Somerset
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Horseshoe Lake, Succasunna
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Brookdale Park, Montclair
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Register as an individual walker or gather your friends, family and coworkers and form your own Light The Night Walk team. We make it easy for you! Register now or call (908) 956-6642.
How Your Dollars Are Used:
75 cents of every dollar raised goes directly towards supporting our mission to find a cure for blood cancers. Since it's founding in 1949, LLS has invested more than $550 million in leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma research. Society funded research has led to key advances in understanding blood cancers and the life-saving drugs to fight them.
The Triumphs:
- A newly FDA approved drug, Gleevec, has shown to normalize blood counts in nearly all patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). Dr. Brian Druker, a Society-funded researcher, is responsible for this remarkable innovation in cancer research.
- In 1974 the 5 year survival rate for children with the most common form of leukemia was just 53%. Today, 87% of children diagnosed will survive.
- The 5 year survival rate for Hodgkin's Lymphoma has doubled from 40% in 1960 to 83% today.
The Battles:
- Blood cancers are the second most fatal form of cancer, second only to lung cancer.
- Someone is newly diagnosed with a blood cancer every 5 minutes. Every 10 minutes a child or adult loses the fight.
- 823,349 Americans are presently battling leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma.
- Leukemia is the leading cause of disease related death in children under the age of 20.
WE ARE RELENTLESS FOR A CURE!
JOIN THE FIGHT, REGISTER TODAY FOR LIGHT THE NIGHT!
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