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Why support St. Jude? - 0 views

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  • The support of caring people like you helps ensure that St. Jude Children's Research Hospital will continue its lifesaving mission of finding cures and saving children.
  • Thanks to donors, St. Jude families never pay for treatment not covered by insurance, and no child is ever denied treatment because of the family's inability to pay.
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Quick Facts about St. Jude - 2 views

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  • . Its mission is to find cures for children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. 
  • Research findings at St. Jude are shared freely with doctors and scientists all over the world
  • St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital opened on February 4, 1962 and was founded by the late entertainer Danny Thomas
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  • No family ever pays St. Jude for anything
  • St. Jude has developed protocols that have helped push overall survival rates for childhood cancers from less than 20 percent when the hospital opened in 1962 to 80 percent today
  • The daily operating cost for St. Jude is $1.7 million, which is primarily covered by public contributions
  • St. Jude was the first facility outside the National Institutes of Health to receive federal approval for research involving human gene therapy
  • St. Jude is the national coordinating center for the National Cancer Institute-funded Pediatric Brain Tumor Consortium.
  • St. Jude is the coordinating center for the nationwide Children’s Cancer Survivor Study, funded by the National Cancer Institute. St. Jude is the national coordinating center for the National Cancer Institute-sponsored Pediatric Drug Discovery Consortium.
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