Need

The need is critical: An estimated 912,938 people in the United States are living with, or are in remission from, leukemia, Hodgkin lymphoma, non-Hodgkin lymphoma or myeloma.  Every four minutes, someone new is diagnosed with blood cancer.  Every 10 minutes, someone dies.
  
Leukemia causes more deaths than any other cancer among children under the age of 20. Lymphomas are the most common blood cancers and incidence increases with age.  The survival rate for myeloma is only 37.1 percent.  Incidence is nearly twice as high among African Americans as for all other races.