What is St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital? What do they do? Why are we fundraising for them? Come learn what they stand for…

The mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is to advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. Consistent with the vision of our founder Danny Thomas, no child is denied treatment based on race, religion or a family’s ability to pay.

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St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

1. MISSION

The mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is to advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. Consistent with the vision of their founder Danny Thomas, no child is denied treatment based on race, religion or a family’s ability to pay.

2. Why Support

Supporters like you mean St. Jude families 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.

St. Jude freely shares the discoveries it makes, which means doctors and scientists worldwide can use that knowledge to save thousands more children.

Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the childhood cancer survival rate from 20% to 80% and they won’t stop until they achieve 100% survivability across all childhood cancer.

$0 Cost Care

Families 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.

Worldwide Care

St. Jude has treated children from all 50 states and from around the world. On average, 7,800 active patients visit the hospital each year, most of whom are treated on an outpatient basis.

Soaring Success

Treatments Soaring Success at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood survival rate from 20 percent when the hospital opened in 1962 to more than 80 percent today.

Crowd Funded

The daily operating cost for St. Jude is $2 million, which is primarily covered by individual contributors

Challenge Accepted

St. Jude is where doctors often send their toughest cases, because St. Jude has the world’s best survival rates for some of the most aggressive forms of childhood cancers.

Open Source

St. Jude freely shares its groundbreaking discoveries, and every child saved at St. Jude means doctors and scientists can use that knowledge to save thousands more children around the world.

3. Their History

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital has a storied history of success in fighting childhood cancers and diseases since their inception in 1962. Interested in what they’ve done? Follow this timeline of their history.

1962

Hospital Opens

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital opened in front of a crowd of 9,000 in Memphis, Tennessee

1966

ALL Patient Success

A group of St. Jude patients are the first acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) patients to ever be successfully taken off therapy, based on evidence that remission can be sustained.

1977

Sickle Cell Disease Research

The hospital launches the first major effort to understand the lifelong progression of sickle cell disease.

1984

After Completion Therapy Clinic

We open the After Completion of Therapy Clinic, the world’s largest long-term follow-up clinic for pediatric cancer patients.

1996

Nobel Prize

Peter Doherty, PhD, St. Jude Immunology chair, is awarded the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine.  

2006

94% Survival Rate

St. Jude reports a 94% survival rate for patients with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), using therapy that does not include radiation.

2007

St. Jude LIFE Study

The St. Jude LIFE study begins to study the long-term effects of cancer and its treatment. This initiative is one of the most ambitious follow-up projects ever conceived.  

2008

NCICCC Award

St. Jude is designated a National Cancer Institute Comprehensive Cancer Center. We’re the first and only cancer center solely focused on pediatric cancer to receive this distinction.

2010

Pediatric Cancer Genome Project

We launch the Pediatric Cancer Genome Project, a collaboration with Washington University to uncover why childhood cancer arises, spreads and resists treatment. As part of the world’s largest such initiative, scientists compare the complete normal and cancer genomes of 800 childhood cancer patients with some of the toughest and least understood pediatric cancers.

2018

Collaboration with WHO

St. Jude and World Health Organization announce a five-year collaboration to transform cancer care by curing at least 60% of children with six of the most common kinds of cancer worldwide by 2030.

2019

Cure for Bubble Boy

St. Jude announces a cure for SCID-X1, commonly known as bubble boy disease. By combining gene therapy and low-dose chemotherapy with busulfan, immune function is restored in infants with the disorder. 

2023

Gene Editing Brings New Era of Hope for Cure to Sickle Cell Disease

St. Jude doctors and scientists work to help kids with sickle cell live longer, healthier lives in the U.S. and abroad.

Want to Learn More?

St. Jude is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeat childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Click the link below to visit their website and learn more about their mission.

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About St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, founded in 1962, is a pediatric treatment and research facility focused on children’s catastrophic diseases, particularly leukemia and other cancers. The hospital costs about US$2.8 million a day to run, but patients are not charged for their care. St. Jude treats infants, children, teens, and young adults up to age 21 and for some conditions, age 25.

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About Kilometers 4 Kiddos

Kilometers 4 Kiddos was created with only one goal in mind; to create a central outlet in the Twitch Zwift community for charity and awareness. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is the chosen charity as they are leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening disease. They are working to drive the overall survival rate for childhood cancer to 90 percent in the next decade.