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St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital was founded in 1962 by the late entertainer Danny Thomas. It was Thomas’s belief that no child should be denied access to health care regardless of race, creed, religion or the family’s ability to pay.
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 also pays for lodging, food and travel for patients and their families.
St. Jude is the first institution established for the sole purpose of conducting basic and clinical research into catastrophic childhood diseases, mainly cancer. It is the largest childhood cancer research center in the United States in terms of the number of patients enrolled and successfully treated.
St. Jude is the first known hospital in the world to cure sickle cell disease through bone marrow transplantation. Today, bone marrow transplantation still offers the only cure for sickle cell disease.
St. Jude has done research in sickle cell disease since its inception. One month after the groundbreaking of ALSAC, the hospital’s fund-raising arm, the first research grant in the amount of $10,000 was given to Dr. Lemuel Diggs for the continuation of his work on sickle cell anemia.
The hospital’s daily operating costs are approximately more than $1 million, which are primarily covered by public contributions.
To treat a child with standard-risk acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) requires a 2 ½ year protocol. The first year of treatment costs about $500,000. Research findings and information discovered at St. Jude are freely shared with doctors and scientists all over the world.
St. Jude researchers and doctors are treating children with genetic immune defects and pediatric AIDS, as well as using new drugs and therapies to fight infections.
For additional information about St Jude visit the following links below.
www.stjude.org
www.stjsundayofhope.org
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