As one of the world’s premier centers for the research and treatment of cancer and other catastrophic childhood diseases, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is a beacon of hope to families with sick children everywhere.

Hope that there are new discoveries. Hope that there are treatments that cure. Hope that a child will not die in the dawn of life.

St. Jude is the hospital that hope built – a place where parents can focus on their children and not worry about the cost of treatment. That’s because people across the country make a commitment to raise money to help fund the lifesaving work of St. Jude. As a St. Jude Hero, you can join these men, women and children on the front lines in the fight against devastating childhood diseases.

Quick Facts:

• St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital was founded in 1962 by the late entertainer Danny Thomas. Its mission is to find cures for children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. St. Jude has treated children from all 50 states and from around the world.
• St. Jude pioneered a combination of chemotherapy, radiation and surgery to treat childhood cancers.
• St. Jude is the only pediatric cancer research center where families never pay for treatment not covered by insurance. No child is ever denied treatment because of the family’s inability to pay.
• 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 more than 70 percent.