History of St. Jude's
Who founded St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in 1962?
Who is Danny Thomas?
What is the international awareness color for childhood cancer?
What type of childhood cancer affects the blood and bone marrow and is the most common overall?
What is leukemia?
What treatment uses high-energy rays to kill cancer cells?
What is radiation therapy?
What hospital do Sigma Gamma Rho and Lambda Theta Alpha support through their national philanthropy partnerships?
What is St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital?
What city is home to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital?
What is Memphis, Tennessee?
What month is recognized as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month?
What is September?
What cancer has two main types known as Hodgkin and non-Hodgkin?
What is lymphoma?
The use of drugs to destroy cancer cells is called what?
What is chemotherapy?
What national campaign do Sigma Gamma Rho and Lambda Theta Alpha share to raise money and awareness for childhood cancer?
What is St. Jude's Walk?
St. Jude was the first children’s hospital in the U.S. to open a department dedicated to what kind of research?
What is pediatric cancer research?
What type of doctor specializes in treating cancer?
What is an oncologist?
What type of cancer can cause problems with balance and walking in children?
What is a brain tumor(also known as medulloblastoma)?
What type of cancer treatment works by boosting the body’s natural defenses to recognize and destroy cancer cells?
What is immunotherapy?
In what years did Sigma Gamma Rho and Lambda Theta Alpha become partners with St. Jude Children's Hospital?
What is 1992 and 2010?
The name “St. Jude” was chosen because St. Jude is the patron saint of what?
Who is the patron saint of hopeless or lost causes?
What common imaging test uses magnets and radio waves to create detailed pictures of the inside of the body to help detect cancer?
What is an MRI (Magnetic Resonance Imaging)?
Wilms tumor is a type of childhood kidney cancer. It is most often diagnosed in children under what age?
What is 5 years old?
What medical procedure is sometimes used after high-dose chemotherapy to restore the body’s ability to make healthy blood cells?
What is a stem cell (or bone marrow) transplant?
Name 2-3 community service activities that Sigma Gamma Rho and Lambda Theta Alpha members perform for families of St. Jude patients besides fundraising.
What is delivering care packages, hosting family events, or volunteering at hospital events?
In what year did St. Jude announce that the survival rate for childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia had risen from 4% in 1962 to over 90%?
What is 2010?
Approximately how many children are diagnosed with cancer each year in the U.S.?
What is about 15,000?
Ewing sarcoma is a rare childhood cancer that most often develops in what part of the body?
What are the bones(commonly in the legs, arms, pelvis, or chest)?
What newer cancer treatment focuses on blocking the specific molecules or pathways that cancer cells need to grow and spread?
What is targeted therapy?
Which St. Jude initiative benefits directly from combined efforts of LTA and SGRho chapters nationwide?
What is the Pediatric Oncology Research Program?