Regardless of the duration or the cost of care, families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing, or food, so they can focus on helping their child live.
And we're working to help children worldwide.
Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate in the United States from 20% to more than 80% since we opened in 1962.
However, in many developing countries fewer than one in five children with cancer will live. St. Jude is working to change that.
By 2030, our goal is to cure at least 60% of children with six of the most common kinds of cancer worldwide.
Artwork by St. Jude patient Jack
St. Jude patient Aspen
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Learn more about our history, our patients and research:
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Our history
Danny used his fame to fulfill his vow and to change the lives of thousands of children and families. In 1962, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital opened in front of a crowd of 9,000 in Memphis, Tenn.
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Our Patient Stories
Be inspired by stories about our patients on their journeys from diagnosis to treatment of childhood cancer and other pediatric diseases treated at St. Jude.
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Our unique operating model
There are great research institutions, great hospitals and great charities — we are all three. Learn more about our unique operating model.