IRVINE, CA--(Marketwire - May 26, 2010) - Stanbridge College students, faculty and staff strived together to raise over $2000 for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS), which is the world's largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research, education and patient services.
The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS) relies on the support of individuals and corporations to fund its initiatives. Stanbridge College has helped contribute to the more than $600 million raised and invested in research specifically targeting leukemia, lymphoma and myeloma since the organizations creation in 1954.
Every 4 minutes one person is diagnosed with a blood cancer. Every ten minutes, someone dies from a blood cancer. These statistics represent nearly 146 people each day or more than six people every hour. Leukemia causes more deaths than any other cancer among children and young adults under the age of 20.
An estimated 139,860 people in the United States will be diagnosed with leukemia, lymphoma or myeloma in 2009. New cases of leukemia, Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin lymphoma and myeloma account for 9.5 percent of the 1,479,350 new cancer cases diagnosed in the United States this year.
About Stanbridge College
Irvine, California based Stanbridge College is a coeducational technical college with an annual enrollment of over 500 students. Founded in 1996, Stanbridge is nationally accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Career Schools and Colleges, ACCSC and offers Diploma, Associate and Bachelor of Science degree programs in Vocational Nursing, Information Technology and Accounting.
Stanbridge College is a 2008-2009 ACCSC School of Excellence Award Recipient from the Accrediting Commission of Career schools & Colleges (ACCSC) and has been named to the 2009 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll, the highest federal recognition a college or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning and civic engagement.
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