# Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (LLS)

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## TL;DR

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society is the main US blood-cancer charity, unusual for running its own precision-medicine trials (Beat AML, PedAL) and investing directly in biotech, alongside co-pay assistance and one-to-one information specialists.

## Summary

Founded 1949. LLS funds ~$1.7 billion in research to date, runs Beat AML (genomic-assignment master trial that showed rapid genomic testing is feasible in AML, Nat Med 2020) and the paediatric PedAL/LLS Dare to Dream project, offers Information Specialists, the Clinical Trial Support Center (nurse navigators), co-pay assistance (>$500 million distributed), and advocacy on drug costs and oral parity. Its patient booklets cover every leukaemia, lymphoma, myeloma and MDS/MPN.

## Fields

- Kind: Collection
- Last checked: 2026-09-08
- Tags: gap-fill; patient-org
- URL: https://www.lls.org/
- Holds: Patient education and information specialists for blood cancers, co-pay and travel assistance programmes, the Beat AML and PedAL master trials, Therapy Acceleration Program venture funding, and clinical trial navigation.
- Licence: Copyright LLS

## Sources

- LLS: https://www.lls.org/
- Beat AML (Nat Med 2020): https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-020-1089-8

## Connected records

- cancers: [Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia](https://onco.cc/cancers/all-leukemia/), [Acute myeloid leukaemia](https://onco.cc/cancers/aml/), [Chronic lymphocytic leukaemia](https://onco.cc/cancers/cll/), [Chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML)](https://onco.cc/cancers/cml/), [Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/dlbcl/), [Follicular lymphoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/follicular-lymphoma/), [Hodgkin lymphoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/hodgkin-lymphoma/), [Mantle cell lymphoma](https://onco.cc/cancers/mantle-cell-lymphoma/), [Multiple myeloma](https://onco.cc/cancers/multiple-myeloma/), [Myelodysplastic syndromes / neoplasms (MDS)](https://onco.cc/cancers/mds/), [Myeloproliferative neoplasms (PV, ET, myelofibrosis)](https://onco.cc/cancers/myeloproliferative-neoplasms/)
- companies: [Leukemia & Lymphoma Society Therapy Acceleration Program](https://onco.cc/companies/lls-therapy-acceleration-program/)
- key papers: [Precision medicine treatment in acute myeloid leukemia using prospective genomic profiling: feasibility and preliminary efficacy of the Beat AML Master Trial](https://onco.cc/key-papers/paper-burd-nat-med/)
- institutions: [American Society of Hematology](https://onco.cc/institutions/ash/)
- trials: [Beat AML Master Trial](https://onco.cc/trials/beat-aml-master-trial/)

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