By: (AP) Margo Howard, daughter of the late advice columnist Ann Landers, has established a research fund to fight multiple myeloma, the bone marrow disease that recently took her mother's life.
Howard said the Ann Landers Research Fund would be part of a national fund-raising program in collaboration with the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation.
"During my mother's lifetime she was a great supporter of medical research," Howard said in a statement. "It seems fitting that, after her death, her name will continue to be connected with medical progress."
Kathy Giusti, president of the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation, said the nonprofit organization's Web site will launch a special section devoted to the life of Landers, where visitors can pledge support for research to be conducted in her name. Also, the foundation's annual 5K walk/run in Chicago will be renamed the "MMRF-Ann Landers Race for Research," beginning with this year's race on Sept. 21.
Landers, whose real name was Esther Lederer, died June 22 at 83.
Multiple myeloma, the second most common blood-related cancer, is estimated to affect about 45,000 people in the United States.
Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation:
http://www.multiplemyeloma.org
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