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Blood Cancer Awareness Fact A Day: Day Six

Patch is publishing a fact each day in honor 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. 

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.  

Blood Cancer Fact No. Six: Collectively, the blood cancers account for 9.5 percent of all cancer deaths making them the third most common cause of cancer death behind digestive and lung cancers.  They also account for 9 percent of all new diagnoses in the U.S., making them the fourth most commonly occurring cancers behind lung, prostate and breast cancer.

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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