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Orland Park family creates endowment for leukemia research
UIC News Bureau
Issue date: 8/15/05 Section: News Briefs
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Nick and Janet Vallianatos of Orland Park have established an endowment in memory of their daughter Angeliki, who died last March of acute myelogenous leukemia at the age of 31. The funds will support leukemia research at the University of Illinois at Chicago Cancer Center.
"We want her story to live on, to inspire medical researchers to find a cure," said Nick Vallianatos, owner of the Olympic Star restaurant in Tinley Park for almost 30 years.
AML is a rapidly progressive cancer of the blood that is characterized by the uncontrolled proliferation of immature white blood cells, called blasts. The overproduction of these cells crowds the bone marrow, radically reducing the body's ability to form normal and necessary blood cells.
Angeliki attended Carl Sandburg High School in Orland Park and graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1996 with a major in sociology. She was pursuing a master's degree in counseling at Governors State University and working as an admissions counselor at Robert Morris College when she was diagnosed with AML. It took her life two years later.
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"We want her story to live on, to inspire medical researchers to find a cure," said Nick Vallianatos, owner of the Olympic Star restaurant in Tinley Park for almost 30 years.
AML is a rapidly progressive cancer of the blood that is characterized by the uncontrolled proliferation of immature white blood cells, called blasts. The overproduction of these cells crowds the bone marrow, radically reducing the body's ability to form normal and necessary blood cells.
Angeliki attended Carl Sandburg High School in Orland Park and graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1996 with a major in sociology. She was pursuing a master's degree in counseling at Governors State University and working as an admissions counselor at Robert Morris College when she was diagnosed with AML. It took her life two years later.