Learn more about St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Published: Oct. 25, 2024 at 6:40 AM MST
PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Arizona‘s Family is partnering with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital for its Dream Home Giveaway—the first-ever in Arizona.
The giveaway will raise $1 million for the hospital.
If you‘re not familiar with the incredible work done at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, here’s more information about the world’s leading childhood cancer research hospital:
- Located in Memphis, Tenn., St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases.
- Families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food – so they can focus on helping their child live.
- Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20% to more than 80% since it opened in 1962. And they won’t stop until no child dies from cancer.
- Because the majority of St. Jude’s funding comes from individual contributions, St. Jude has the freedom to focus on what matters most – saving kids regardless of their financial situation.
- St. Jude cares for some of the world’s sickest children regardless of their race, ethnicity, beliefs or ability to pay. Patients receive the customized care they need to treat childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases, no matter what barriers they may face.
- St. Jude has treated children from all 50 states and from around the world.
- St. Jude treats more than 8,000 patients each year for childhood cancer and other catastrophic diseases, the majority of whom are treated as outpatients.
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Childhood cancer facts:
- Pediatric cancer is the leading cause of death by disease among U.S. children ages 1 to 14.
- Each year, approximately 16,000 children and teens in the U.S. are diagnosed with cancer.
- Nearly 10% of children with cancer develop the disease because of a genetic condition.
- Thanks in part to better therapies St. Jude has helped to develop, more than 80% of U.S. childhood cancer patients now become long-term survivors.
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