St. Jude Hospital is now able to reach a cure rate of 70 percent overall for victims of pediatric cancer, thanks to its research and treatment protocols. The most common form of childhood cancer, acute lymphocytic leukemia (ALL) now has a survival rate of 80 percent. It was considered incurable when St. Jude opened its doors in 1962.
All St. Jude Hospital doctors provide written and telephone consultation daily along with advice to physicians all over the world at no cost. Pediatric Oncology Group Institutions, from the greater Boston and New England area, utilize St. Jude’s laboratory for DNA analysis of cancer patient samples. It is this type of free exchange and collaboration which will result in a cure one day.
Quick Facts
- Since St Jude opened in 1962, it has treated more than 16,000 children from across the United States and foreign countries.
- Research findings at St Jude are freely shared with doctors and scientists all over the world. St Jude enjoys a worldwide reputation as a teaching facility. The medical and scientific staff published about 400 articles in academic journals in 1998.
- The hospitals daily operating costs are approximately $515,000, which are primarily covered by public contributions.
- Out of every dollar received at ALSAC/St. Jude, 86.7 percent goes to current of future needs of St. Jude. About 9.47 percent is used to raise additional dollars, and 3.82 percent is used for administration costs.
- St. Jude pioneered a combination of chemotherapy, radiation and, where necessary, surgery to treat childhood cancers. The hospital continues to expand the use of bone marrow transplant and gene therapy as treatments for pediatric cancers and genetic diseases.
- St Jude operates a bone marrow transplant program that enables doctors to performa more than 150 transplants per year.
- St Jude was the first facility outside the National Institutes of Health to receive federal approval for research involving human gene therapy.
For more information, please visit the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital homepage.
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