White Plains, NY (PRWEB) June 19, 2013
TNT Fuels 300 New Research Programs to Learn Breakthrough Remedies & Cures

This year alone, The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) is supporting more than 300 investigation projects with one particular goal in thoughts: Discovering lifesaving therapies for blood cancer patients. And in 2013, Group In Coaching (TNT), a flagship LLS fundraising campaign and the worlds initial and biggest endurance sports instruction program, is marking its landmark 25th anniversary. To date, TNT has helped LLS invest more than $ 875 million in investigation to learn and provide breakthrough cancer treatments that are saving lives these days.

Far more than 570,000 participants have participated in Team In Coaching since 1988. Not only have they had an unforgettable expertise and opportunity to reach personal ambitions, but these committed individuals have brought us closer to the ultimate finish line: The end of blood cancers, states George Omiros, Executive Vice President, Chief Campaign and Field Development Officer, LLS. Team In Training has played a tremendous role in the success of LLS, in helping us fund leading scientists and researchers to uncover novel, breakthrough blood cancer therapies and cures.

In fact, advances accomplished partly through LLS-funded study have elevated the five-year survival rate for acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) from three percent in 1964 to 90 % nowadays. Further, blood cancer research is a gateway to therapies and even cures for several other cancers, as well as some inflammatory ailments, such as rheumatoid arthritis. “Thanks to extraordinary campaigns such as Team In Coaching, LLS is able to fund breakthrough therapies that are saving lives these days, states Louis DeGennaro, PhD, Chief Mission Officer, LLS. For instance, LLS funding helped advance the discovery and clinical testing of Gleevec