take a second

These days, it is unfortunate that almost everyone knows of someone who currently has cancer, has beaten cancer, or has lost their life to cancer.

In 2010, the United States population was about 308,745,538.

In 2010, cancer hit 1,529,560 people.

About 1 out of every 200 people were diagnosed with cancer last year.

Of those, 569, 490 lost their lives.

That turns out to be about 1 out of every 3 people with cancer died last year.

This means that, just last year, 1 out of every 500 people died because of cancer.

Those are all sad facts though. Here is a much happier one:

Since Relay for Life began in 1985, the event has so far raised more than 3.5 billion dollars.

I hope you realize how amazing this is, that we live in a country where average American people would donate over 3.5 billion of their hard-earned money over the past 25 years to stop this terrible disease.

Take a second to think of someone whose life has been changed because of cancer. In honor/memory of that person, please make a donation for them. It's the least we can do.

Click here to donate.

Thank you <3

Steven Pettit - Leukemia

Uncle Frank - Glioblastoma

Margie Willis - Brain cancer- Still fighting