Finding cures Saving children is the saying for St. Jude Research Hospital. This is what the post was supposed to say:
I would love to work at this place one day. On average, 5,700 active patients visit the hospital each year, most of who are treated on an outpatient basis. St. Jude is the first and only pediatric cancer center to be designated as a Comprehensive Cancer Center by the National Cancer Institute. St. Jude is the first institution established for the sole purpose of conducting basic and clinical research and treatment into catastrophic childhood diseases, mainly cancer. It is the only pediatric cancer research center where families never pay for treatment not covered by insurance. No child is ever denied treatment because the families inability to pay. St. Jude has developed protocols that have helped pust overall survival rates for childhood cancers from less that 20 percent when the hospital opened in 1962 to 80 percent today. in 1962, the survival rate fro acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common form of childhood cancer, was 4 percent. Today, the survival rate for this once deadly disease is 94 percent, thanks to research and treatment protocols developed at St. Jude. The current St. Jude survival rates for selected childhood cancers now include:
Diagnosis Survival Rate
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), 94%
most common form of childhood cancer
Hodgkin lymphoma (cancer of the lymph system) 90%
Medulloblastoma (a type of brain tumor) 85%
Wilms tumor (kidney tumor) 90%
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