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Blood Cancer Awareness Fact A Day: Day Five
Patch is publishing a fact a day about blood cancer in observance of Blood Cancer Awareness Month.
Editor's note:
In August Manassas City Council voted in favor of a proclamation declaring September Blood Cancer Awareness Month.
Each day this month we will publish a fact about blood cancer.
In August Manassas City Council voted in favor of a proclamation declaring September Blood Cancer Awareness Month.
Each day this month we will publish a fact 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.
Fact No. Five: An estimated combined total of 149,990 people in the US are expected to be diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma this year. All three are types of blood cancers.
Learn more about blood cancer awareness from the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society found on the Web at lls.org or the Lymphoma Research Society at lymphoma.org .
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