There are no words that can express the sadness and pain of a mother who lost her first-born child. Eyad was my hero and my beautiful angel. He was everything a mother could ever ask for in a son and more.  Even though I find the warmth and strength everyday from my family to move forward, it will forever be my life’s goal to never let his memory slip away.

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What I’ve learned from this experience is that everyone who looses someone to cancer can eventually harness their anger and pain into helping others, not only to make it through each day, but to join in the fight to find a cure for lymphoma and leukemia.

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The Eyad Karkoutly Lymphoma Leukemia Research Foundation is dedicated to funding biomedical research focused on identifying the origins and further developing treatment options for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), in effort towards ultimately finding a cure to end all blood cancers.