St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®

Quick Facts & Figures

$0Families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food—because all a family should worry about

is helping their child live.

Approximately 75% of the costs of St. Jude are covered by public contributions.75%

Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the

overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20

percent to more than 80 percent since we

opened more than 50 years ago.

20% IN 1962

80% TODAY

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Our purpose is clear: Finding cures. Saving children.®

St. Jude patient Jordyn, blood cancer

St. Jude patient Townes, brain cancer

St. Jude patient Jesus, desmoplastic small

round cell tumor

Help St. Jude continue our mission: Finding cures. Saving children.®

Contact us: 1-800-805-5856 • stjude.org/give

©2017 ALSAC/St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital (30435)

HOSPITALSt. Jude sees more than

7,800 kids each year and provides hundreds of free consultations for doctors worldwide.

CHARITYBecause the majority of St. Jude funding

comes from individual contributors, St. Jude has

the freedom to focus on what matters most—

saving kids regardless of their financial situation.

THERE ARE GREAT HOSPITALS, RESEARCH

INSTITUTIONS, AND CHARITIES.

AT ST. JUDE, WE ARE ALL

THREE.

RESEARCH INSTITUTIONSt. Jude conducts

more clinical trials for cancer than any

other children’s hospital across the U.S.

and around the world.

Sydney receives most of her treatment at the affiliate in

Alabama, which is close to her home. She visits

St. Jude in Memphis for regular appointments.

ST. JUDE AFFILIATE

CLINICS

24 PARTNER SITES 17COUNTRIES

IN

St. Jude FREELY SHARES discoveries, so every child saved at St. Jude means doctors + scientists worldwide can use that knowledge to save thousands more children.

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