Colorado Businesses Fighting Cancer This Holiday Season

Every year roughly 30,000 people with cancer go in search of a bone marrow donor and only 3,000 will find a match. Part of the problem is the cost associated with bone marrow donor registration. As 2008 comes to a close, The Love Hope Strength Foundation (LHS), a Denver-based global cancer-fighting organization, is spending much of the holiday season working with DKMS, the world’s largest marrow donor center, and Colorado businesses to register volunteers to the national bone marrow donor database, at no cost. Companies such as Johnston Wells, Lockheed Martin, Cambiar Investments, The Jet Hotel, and Martini Ranch have opened their doors to help provide a solution to the thousands of people who cannot find a match each year. The registration takes under five minutes and requires only a cheek swab and completion of a donor consent form. Unlike previous years, if the donors are found to be a match they can help save a life with a simple outpatient procedure.

“This is a season where people are feeling generous, but not everyone has the resources to donate money in this the economic climate. Giving a few minutes to join the international bone marrow registry is an easy way for people and corporations to make a positive impact without opening their wallets,” said LHS Executive Director, Shannon Foley.

The next marrow donor registration event occurs December 18^th from 10am-2pm with Sound Surgical Technologies, located at 357 South McCaslin Blvd. in Louisville, Colorado.

For more information on how your organization can participate in this or other cancer fighting initiatives, email Shannon (at) lovehopestrength.org.

About Love Hope Strength

With headquarters in Denver and chapters in Dallas, the United Kingdom, Peru, and Australia, LHS brings critical funding, material support and awareness to cancer initiatives worldwide. LHS has traveled the globe to Mt. Everest, the Empire State Building, Mt. Snowdon, and Machu Picchu, Peru, using the universal language of music to purchase life saving equipment, spread awareness, promote early detection, and register people to the international bone marrow database. Founded by insurance mogul, James Chippendale along with Mike Peters of The Alarm, and with the support from legends in rock n' roll and passionate volunteers from around the globe, LHS is making a tangible difference in the fight against cancer.

About DKMS

DKMS is the world’s largest marrow donor center with over 1.7 million registered marrow donors. Since its founding in Germany in 1991, DKMS has facilitated more than 14,000 transplants. The mission of DKMS is to give every blood cancer patient a second chance at life by recruiting marrow donors from every race and ethnicity. We inspire hope and healing by matching our donors with patients around the world in need of a marrow transplant. DKMS Americas is a 501 (c)(3) non-profit organization. For more information about DKMS, please visit www.dkmsamericas.org or contact Maria La Gamba at maria@dkmsamericas.org.

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