Why Help St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital?
• St. Jude is the world’s largest pediatric cancer research center in terms of the number of patients enrolled and successfully treated. Since St. Jude opened in 1962, it has treated about 19,000 patients from all 50 states and 60 foreign countries. • St. Jude, which is non-sectarian, has approximatley 4,300 patients in active status. It treats children without regard to race, religion, creed or ability to pay. ALSAC/St. Jude, the fund-raising arm, covers all costs not covered by insurance for medical treatment rendered at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Families without insurance are never asked to pay. • Each St. Jude patient must be referred by a physician, have a disease currently under study at the hospital, be eligible for a current research protocol and generally, be 18 years old or younger. • St. Jude researchers and doctors are treating children with genetic immune defects and pediatric AIDS, as well as using new drugs and therapies to fight infection. • Research findin
