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Patient Stories

Double jeopardy
Aaron Jackson: Double Jeopardy
Imagine finding out that your newborn son has an inherited blood disorder. Still reeling from that diagnosis, you discover that he also has cancer. St. Jude helps one family cope.
Three cheers for Hydroxyurea
Kristian Hassell: Three cheers for hydroxyurea
For 10-year-old Kristian Hassell, it’s become as commonplace as having a glass of orange juice in the morning. But the liquid she drinks each day with her breakfast is far from ordinary. The liquid is hydroxyurea—a drug therapy used by physicians at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to treat sickle cell disease.
Krista Mills
Krista Mills
Krista Mills is obsessed with baby dolls. She has scores of them sitting in bookcases and crowding her bed, many tumbling onto the floor.
Patient Shandel Narcisse
Shandel Narcisse
Shandel Narcisse found hope and help for sickle cell disease 2,300 miles from his home on a tropical island.
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