The mission of St. Jude is to advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment.
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is leading the way the world understands, treats and cures childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. It is the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center devoted solely to children and is currently ranked as the No. 1 pediatric cancer hospital by U.S. News & World Report.
St. Jude specializes in pediatric oncology, childhood cancer, sickle cell disease, cancer survivorship, clinical research, scientific research, global medicine, clinical trials, cancer research, blood disorders, infectious diseases, HIV and translational research.
Treatments developed at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20 percent to 80 percent since the hospital opened more than 50 years ago. St. Jude freely shares the breakthroughs it makes, and every child saved at St. Jude means doctors and scientists worldwide can use that knowledge to save thousands more children.
Families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing and food.
To learn about the science and medicine at St. Jude: www.stjude.org/research/initiatives.html.
