St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
The mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is to advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. Consistent with the vision of its founder Danny Thomas, no child is denied treatment based on race, religion, or a family's ability to pay.
No child should die in the dawn of life
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital opened its doors on February 4, 1962, based on Danny's dream that "no child should die in the dawn of life." Since then, they’ve made incredible strides in childhood cancer research. They’ve helped improve the survival rate of childhood cancer from 20% to 80%. And ALL, the disease with a virtual death sentence in 1962, now has a survival rate of 94 percent.
Today, they are a world leader in developing new, improved treatments for children with cancer, and create more clinical trials for cancer than any other children's hospital. They freely share those breakthroughs, and every child saved at St. Jude means doctors and scientists worldwide can use that knowledge to save thousands more children.
And still today as when they opened their doors, families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing, or food – because all they should worry about is helping their child live.
Danny Thomas died in 1991, but he left us with an enduring legacy and commitment to saving the lives of children everywhere. They won’t stop until no child dies from cancer.
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