LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY

The lLS mission is to cure cancer and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.

Senior vice president of big climb, Jana Bearden, joins us by phone to tell us about their newest virtual fundraising innovation "Big virtual climb".

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You are patient eat as now or the on and ... los is a patient person, organization, and even in this challenging environment ... and we are making sure that we are hitting patient first ... .

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We were ... lucky for everyone to join ... just go ... to los.org ... big clyde and that it where you can ... eat all of the information to register their there is ... a registration fee.

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