Why Supporting St. Jude is important:

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• Thanks to St. Jude, survival rates for childhood cancer have gone fomr less than 20% to more than 70% overall.
• Survival rates for acute lymphoblastic leukemia have sky-rocketed from 4% in 1962 to 94% today.
• No family is ever asked to pay for St. Jude treatment.
• St. Jude is the only pediatric cancer research center that pays for lodging, food and travel for patients and families.
• St. Jude has the largest group of doctors and scientists under one roof in the United States.
• St. Jude takes on rare diseases and developes an expertise not found in any other hospital in the nation.
• St. Jude shares all their findings with everybody; in a sense every cure found for a single St. Jude patient can save thousands of other children's lives.
• It costs over 1 million dollars per day to run the hospital-this is all funded purely by donation from organizations like Up 'Til Dawn.
• St. Jude saves children from all over the world, not just the United States. It completely disregards race and ethnicity.
• It is a place that makes both families and patients feel at home when they are going through difficult situations.