Cancer is one of the world’s most powerful killers and will touch each and every one of us in our lifetime. It knows no borders and sees no color, race, religion, age or socioeconomic demographic. It is a global issue in need of support from a worldwide network. Through innovative concerts and climbs, LHSF will be providing critical funding for cancer centers worldwide so that ALL people have access to quality treatment and are given the best chance at survival.
Love Hope Strength Foundation (LHSF) is an international charity with chapters in the US, UK and Australia. Founded by leukemia survivors Mike Peters of the Welsh rock band the Alarm and President of CSI Entertainment James Chippendale with the goal of providing all cancer patients with the same opportunities that they had, including access to information, quality cancer treatment and the best medication available.
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 Mike Peters is known primarily as lead singer and songwriter of internationally acclaimed Welsh rock and roll band, The Alarm. He is also a cancer survivor two times over. Mike has successfully fought The Big C on two occasions; once in 1995 when he battled Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma and more recently in 2006 when he was diagnosed with Chronic Lymphocyte Leukemia (CLL). Throughout a six month spell of high dose chemotherapy, Mike Peters continued to play and perform with his band The Alarm, taking to the stage each time in his trademark 'green' combat fatigues (which became his health talisman after a faith healer gave him the revelation that 'green' was the healing color in his life).
Mike Peters subsequently led The Alarm back into the U.K. Top 30 in February, with the stomping 'Superchannel' and orchestrated the international release of 'Under Attack' (The Alarm's most recent album), to worldwide critical acclaim.
"Mike Peters – On the Road to Recovery", a revealing BBC documentary chronicling Mike’s inspiring story, was screened in October 2006. The cameras were allowed into the treatment and dressing rooms of Mike's life throughout the last six months of his cancer fight. The filming also included Mike and his wife Jules in their successful struggle to conceive a child through IVF. Evan Michael Peters was born January 1, 2007.
Mike Peters formed The Alarm in Rhyl, North Wales, in 1981 and has led the band to hit records in each of the three decades since: 16 UK hit singles (68 Guns, Where Were You Hiding When The Storm Broke, Spirit Of '76, Rain In The Summertime, 45 R.P.M. etc.), and a host of successful albums with over 5 million sales worldwide. Mike Peters has appeared with or been joined on stage by such rock and roll luminaries as U2, Bob Dylan and Neil Young.
 James Chippendale is president of CSI Entertainment Insurance, one of the country's largest entertainment and sports insurance brokers and has worked on events featuring some of the world's top entertainers including Lollapalooza, Global Gathering, Ultra Music Festival, Austin City Limits Music Festival and concerts featuring Gwen Stefani, REM, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ludacris, George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Bob Dylan, Motley Crue, Nelly, and Coldplay. James also provides risk management for some of the world's top athletes including Lance Armstrong and the Discovery Channel Cycling Team.
In March of 2000, James was diagnosed with a very aggressive form of leukemia. His doctors gave him a 50% chance of survival but after three rounds of intense chemotherapy, radiation and a bone marrow transplant from a German donor, James came back healthier and stronger and ready to join the battle in helping those who helped him.
James devotes a great deal of his time to "the cause" - providing patients in need with the same opportunity that he had: access to quality doctors and funding for treatments and medications. He has brought attention to the issue with appearances on ABC and Fox News, highly unusual forums such as The Howard Stern Radio and TV show as well as being a noted speaker for Leukemia and Bone Marrow Foundations Worldwide. |
Future goals include an online support network. The online support network will provide filtered listings of informative websites so one can learn as much as possible about the challenges they are facing. This will include providing the “Ten Tools for Triumph(TM)”, links to the leading doctors, treatments, hospitals, treatment centers, medications, holistic options, diet, exercise, meditation/prayer, clinical trials, books and support groups.
*The Ten Tools for Triumph are featured in the best selling book, “Climb Back From Cancer” by fellow trekker Alan Hobson. Alan is a Cancer Survivor, Stem Cell Transplant recipient, famous author, speaker and 3 time Everest climber! www.climbback.com
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NEPAL CANCER RELIEF SOCIETY
Nepal Cancer Relief Society is a nationwide, community-based, non-profit voluntary health organization, founded by the late princess Jayanti Rajya Laxmi Devi Shah in the year 1982 with the objective to control, prevent, and cure the deadly disease in Nepal. They provide rehabilitative services to those suffering from cancer. The society has been working through its 32 district branches of the Kingdom and is planning to increase the number of branches to all 75 districts in the country. www.ncrs.org.np |
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NORTH WALES CANCER TREATMENT CENTRE
North Wales Cancer Treatment Centre is located in Ysbyty Glan Clwyd, Bodelwyddan It is the major hospital for central North where Mike Peters was first diagnosed with Non Hodgkin’s Lymphoma back in 1995/96. |
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ALAN HOBSON – Climb Back from Cancer
Inspirational / motivational speaker, international bestselling author and cancer survivor, Alan Hobson, reached the top of Mt. Everest on his third expedition only to face an even bigger mountain when he was diagnosed with acute leukemia, a cancer of the blood, and given less than a year to live -- unless he survived intensive chemotherapy cancer treatment, a perilous adult blood cell transplant and climbed back to share his triumphant cancer survivor story with the world. As it turned out, that is exactly what he did. www.climbback.com |
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RYAN GIBSON FOUNDATION
The Foundation has one goal: to find a cure for Leukemia. This goal was set out by late friend of LHSF, Ryan Gibson. Ryan always felt that his purpose, after a long struggle with Leukemia, was to end this dreaded disease. Through grants and contributions supporting research and treatments for leukemia, Ryan Gibson Foundation feels they can accomplish what Ryan set out to do ... save lives. www.ryangibsonfoundation.org |
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