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What is The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society?
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society is the world's largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research, education and patient services. The Society's mission: cure leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families. Since its founding in 1949, the Society has invested more than $483 million in research specifically targeting blood cancers.
How are the Lance Armstrong Foundation (LAF) and the Society working together to improve the lives of people affected by cancer?
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and the LAF have collaborated to develop Welcome Back: Facilitating the Return to School for Children with Cancer, a program to help school personnel facilitate childhood cancer survivors' return to school. The goal of this program, which focuses on both the short-term and late effects of childhood cancer, is to increase the knowledge of school teachers, nurses, social workers, guidance counselors and administrators working with childhood cancer survivors from the point of diagnosis and beyond. After completing the pilot programs, a national curriculum and model for school re-entry was created and implemented in all of the Society's chapters nationwide. Along with the program, an educational booklet for parents, Learning and Living with Cancer: Advocating for Your Child's Educational Needs, has been developed for national distribution in consultation with a Society-sponsored national task force composed of health care and educational professionals.
How can I get involved?
You can help further the work of the LAF and the Society by:
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Increasing awareness of the educational needs of childhood cancer survivors in your community. Distribute copies of the Learning and Living with Cancer: Advocating for Your Child's Educational Needs resource guide to local schools. To order free copies of the booklet, contact the Society at (800) 955-4572.
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