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To advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment.
What is their mission statement
Danny Thomas
What is founder?
One of the first patients ever successfully taken off therapy for acute lymphoblastic leukemia, based on evidence that remission could be sustained, thanks to St. Jude
Who is Pat Patchell
February 4, 1962.
What is the day St. Jude was founded?
7,500 patients
What is the amount of patients St. Jude sees annually?
St. Jude is supported primarily by donations raised by its national fundraising and awareness organization
What is the ALSAC?
The hospital also receives assistance from federal grants (mainly through that organization), insurance and investments.
What is the National Institutes of Health and the National Cancer Institute?
Research findings at St. Jude are shared freely with doctors and scientists _____?
What is all over the world?
The medical and scientific staff published more than how many articles in academic journals in 2010, more than any other pediatric cancer research center in the United States.
What is 680?
The amount if money families pay for St. Jude
What is $0?
In 1962, the survival rate for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common form of childhood cancer, was 4 percent. Today, the survival rate for this once deadly disease is ___ percent, thanks to research and treatment protocols developed at St. Jude.
What is 94%?
During the past five years, ___ cents of every dollar received has supported the research and treatment at St. Jude.
What is 81?
St. Jude patients are referred by a who, and generally have a disease currently under study and are eligible for a current research protocol on clinical research trials.
Who are physicians?
St. Jude researchers and doctors are treating children with ____, as well as using new drugs and therapies to fight infections.
What is pediatric AIDS?
St. Jude was the first institution to develop a cure for _____ with a bone marrow transplant and has one of the largest pediatric sickle cell programs in the country.
What is Sickle Cell Disease?
St. Jude has helped push overall childhood cancer survival rates from 20% in 1962 to more than _____ today!
What is 80%
St. Jude is the first and only _____ to be designated as a Comprehensive Cancer Center by the National Cancer Institute.
What is pediatric cancer center?
St. Jude has the nation’s _____ dedicated solely to children.
What is proton therapy center?
The cost for consultations with doctors with St. Jude
What is $0?
St. Jude was the first children’s hospital to make a major investment in _______ , which helps unlock the secrets of childhood cancer.
What is pediatric cancer genome sequencing?
One of the most significant events to occur at St. Jude happened in 1996 when _______, PhD, of the Department of Immunology was awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.
Who is Peter Doherty?
It will cost approximately _______ to operate St. Jude this year and the majority of that must come from generous donors.
What is $1 billion dollars?
St. Jude has more than ______ employees.
What is 3,600?
St. Jude continues to define the forefront of clinical care and research by aligning with _______.
What is Rady Children’s Hospital, San Diego
St. Jude also conducts long-term biostatistical investigations on the long-term outcomes of its patients and is the only pediatric research hospital that has been awarded _______.
What is a National Cancer Institute cancer center support grant