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St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, which was founded by the late entertainer Danny Thomas in 1962,
has treated more than ___________ children from across the United
States and 80 foriegn countries. |
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Located
in Memphis, St. Jude is the ___________ institution established for the sole purpose of conducting basic and clinical research into catastrophic childhood diseases, mainly cancer.
It is the ___________ childhood cancer research center in the United States in terms of the number of patients enrolled and successfully treated. |
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How
are research findings and information discovered at St. Jude shared
with doctors and scientists all over the world? |
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True
or False. St. Jude distinguishes patient care based upon race, religion,
culture, age or ability to pay? |
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The
hospital's daily operating costs are approximately $1,216,247. How
are these costs primarily covered? |
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St.
Jude has one of the lowest fundraising costs of any national charity.
Out of every dollar donated to St. Jude, about 85 percent of every dollar raised goes to current
or future needs of St. Jude Hospital. What percentage goes to administrative
costs? |
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| 7. |
Peter
C. Doherty, PhD., chairman of St.Jude Hospital's immunology department,
won the ________________ for Medicine in 1996. |
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Since
1962, treatment protocols development at St. Jude Children's Research
Hospital have brought survival rate for childhood cancers from less
than 20 percent to better than ______ percent overall. |
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To
treat a child with standard-risk acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL)
requires a 2 1/2-year protocol. What is the approximate cost for
the first year of treatment? |
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St.
Jude Hospital was the first facility outside the National Institutes
of Health to recieve federal approval for the research involving
_________________________________. The hospital has more open cell
and gene therapy protocols than any other single institution in
the world. |
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