Join us in the fight to find a cure for leukemia and lymphoma. A person in the United States is diagnosed with a blood cancer approximately every three minutes. An estimated 171,550 people will be diagnosed with blood cancer in 2016. Statistics mean little when a disease like leukemia strikes your family. In 2009, Dr. Babaloui and her husband experienced every parent's worst nightmare when their precious daughter, Nina, was diagnosed with Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (ALL).