No Family Should Face
Leukemia Alone
The Dawn Casmer Foundation funds leukemia research and stands beside the families living through it because a diagnosis shouldn't mean facing the fight without support.
She Fought Hard
Now We Fight For Her
Dawn was diagnosed with leukemia in (year). She was (age). What her family learned in the months that followed about treatment, costs, and about how much still isn't known, is why this foundation exists.
Our Mission
Nobody Should Fight
Leukemia Alone
A leukemia diagnosis doesn't arrive alone. It comes with treatment schedules, hospital drives, missed work, and bills nobody planned for: on top of the fear.
The Dawn Casmer Foundation was built by people who lived through it.
We fund research at (institution) to help families cover the costs treatment doesn't, because progress against this disease happens two ways: in the lab, and in the everyday support that lets a family keep going.
We currently have a goal of $10,000 that will be used to....
The Numbers Behind The Fight
Leukemia is a blood cancer with no screening test and no way to prevent it. Here's what that looks like in the United States.
66,000+
Diagnosed Every Year
New leukemia cases in the U.S. annually, roughly one every eight minutes.
23,000+
Lives Lost Every Year
Leukemia remains one of the deadliest cancers by mortality rate.
#1
Most Common Childhood Cancer
About 1 in 4 childhood cancer diagnoses is leukemia.
66%
Five-Year Survival Rate
Up from under 30% a generation ago. Research is why that number moved.
Every one of those numbers is a person. Dawn was one of them. The Dawn Casmer Foundation exists so that fewer families have to live inside these statistics, funding research, patient support and standing with the people fighting right now.
A Little Help Can
Make A Big Change
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