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L SA DE AN
ALEC COHEN/Daily
LSA Dean Anne Curzan discusses her long-term goals during an interview with The Daily in the LSA Building Friday morning.
DESIGN BY ALEC COHEN
Ann Arbor resident Anne
Bradley helped coordinate
the event. She has been with
LLS for two and a half years
and believes Light the Night
is a perfect example of LLS’s
mission.
“It’s
an
inspirational
community event based on
raising funds and awareness
to
end
blood
cancer,”
Bradley said. “Our mission is
to end leukemia, lymphoma,
myeloma and non-Hodgkin’s
lymphoma and improve the
quality of life for patients
and their families.”
Bradley explained how the
funds from the fundraiser
are distributed — the vast
majority of goes to helping
individuals
and
their
families afflicted by cancer.
“80 percent of all of our
dollars go straight to mission
and the funds we raise
support
research,
patient
support
programs,
things
like co-pay assistance, travel
assistance, support groups
and free education,” Bradley
said.
Bradley brought up the
high cost of medicine, making
note of the 5,000-percent
increase in the price of the
drug Daraprim, used to treat
some
cancers
and
other
illnesses.
“We
also
support
advocacy,”
Bradley
said.
“Our job is to make sure that
when cures do happen, the
patients are able to access
those cures.”
Bradley said the money is
only a small part of LLS —
the larger part of the group
is to support families.
“It’s about feeling that
warmth
and
sense
of
community,” Bradley said.
“I’ve talked to a lot of
survivors and families and
they talk often about how
isolated they feel and how
lonely they feel when they
get that diagnosis. There’s
something to be said for
being part of a community
and that’s what this is all
about.”
Light
the
Night
also
featured sponsored families
with cancer survivors, one
of which was Team Lena,
which consisted of parents
William and Amanda Kaczur.
William said Lena’s journey
inspired them to give back
to the LLS community. He
said the family feels a sense
of community at events like
Light the Night.
“Once you go through an
experience like ours, one of
the biggest things coming
out of it is pretty much
everybody wants to give
back,” Kaczur said. “This is
a way for us to give back, to
help support, to help promote
because in a lot of ways we’re
the most comfortable at places
and events like this. There are
so many people here with a
similar experience so it makes
us feel very comfortable.”
Lena was only 18 months
old when she was diagnosed
with acute myeloid leukemia.
Amanda got a call from their
daycare program that she
needed to go home due to a
rash on her legs and arms.
After taking her blood at their
pediatrician’s
office,
they
were worried about her high
white blood cell count.
“That was it. We went
to
[C.S.Mott
Children’s
Hospital’s] emergency room
and we started a six-month
long chemo treatment journey
to attack her acute myeloid
leukemia,”
Kazcur
said.
“She went through intense
chemotherapy for six months.
We finished up at the end
of November and she just
finished up what they call
maintenance
where
every
three months she was getting
a spinal tap. She had her last
spinal tap two weeks ago and
she was negative for cancer.”
William said Lena was the
strongest one of the trio and
is amazed by the strength of
their three-year-old daughter.
“She was the strength, the
glue that kept us all together,
the one that’s going through
it,” Kazcur said. “Kids are
amazing.
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