St. Jude TV specials air on BET


Marlo chats with a patient

St. Jude National Outreach Director Marlo Thomas chats
with patient Emily Miller during filming of one of the hospital’s
hour-long television special.


St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital’s one-hour television special can be found every other weekend on BET.

Fighting for Life, hosted by St. Jude National Outreach Director Marlo Thomas, profiles the inspiring stories of St. Jude patients, their families and the doctors and researchers fighting to save their lives and find cures for catastrophic diseases. Check local listings for showtimes.

The show focuses on St. Jude families who generously offered to share their experience with the public. “Everyone at St. Jude was giving us so much, that we had to give back,” said Collen Arceneaux, mother of featured patient, Hayley. “I just knew that if people could see what was really going on here every day, if they could see our story, they would have to help.”

In addition to sharing the stories of patients, Fighting for Life spotlights St. Jude’s ground-breaking research into childhood cancer -- research that has helped the survival rates for childhood cancers increases from less than 20 percent to more than 70 percent since the hospital opened.

Updated March 2006


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