May is Research Month!

May is fundraising month for the WMFC and we are asking you today to support research into finding new treatments and an eventual cure for Waldenström’s Macroglobulinemia.

Only ten years ago, someone diagnosed with Waldenström’s Macroglobulinemia could expect to live another 7.2 years. Now, we WMers may expect to live 15-20 years after diagnosis!  You and other WMFC members have funded the research to make these amazing advances possible and all of us are grateful for your contributions.

We’re proud the WMFC, an organization run entirely by volunteers, funds groundbreaking research that now enables us — parents and grandparents with WM, indeed, all of us WMers — to enjoy fuller, longer, and better lives in the company of our children and grandchildren, families and friends.

As you may know, research into Waldenström’s Macroglobulinemia is funded entirely by the people who have this rare lymphatic cancer and their relatives and friends. Although the WMFC receives no help from our government, our members have raised enough money to support groundbreaking research like the work of Dr. Zachary Hunter of the Bing Centre for WM at Dana-Farber and Dr. Patrizia Mondello at the Mayo Clinic. Your WMFC has committed to contribute $200,000 to these research projects and every dollar will come from you, other WMers, and their relatives and friends.

Dr. Mondello is investigating the role of IRF4 in WM and aims to develop precision therapies for our disease; Dr. Hunter is studying the dysregulation of RNA processing in WM and how it contributes to disease pathogenesis and progression. For more information on these exciting developments, click here.

Now, we need your help. We’re more than half-way to our goal of $200,000. If each one of us donated at least $100 today, we could be $50,000 closer to reaching our goal.

We must sustain momentum in our search for better treatments and an eventual cure for Waldenström’s Macroglobulinemia. Research on our rare cancer is VERY expensive and every dollar counts. Your contribution, big or small, will get us closer to an eventual cure for WM. Our esteemed Dr. Steven Treon, long-time WM researcher at Harvard and Dana-Farber, has told us a cure is in sight! Please help us get there.

Donate now, on our website!

Thank you for your continued commitment to finding new treatments and a cure for WM. Your contribution will make a real difference to all of us who have Waldenström’s Macroglobulinemia!