Editor's note:
In August Manassas City Council voted in favor of a proclamation declaring September Blood Cancer Awareness Month.
As a result, Patch will publish several articles this month with about blood cancer.
The facts were compiled and provided by Manassas resident Rich Zavadowski, a blood cancer survivor who was instrumental in getting local lawmakers to consider the proclamation.
- Leukemia causes almost one-third of all cancer deaths in children under the age of 15
- Non-Hodgkins lymphoma is the seventh most common cancer in males and females in the United States
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