In 1962, St. Jude s founder Danny Thomas opened the doors to St. Jude s Children s Research Hospital with a simple, yet powerful dream: no child should die in the dawn of life . Since then, St. Jude s has worked to provide free-of-cost cancer treatment to many thousands of children.
They have contributed immensely to increasing the childhood cancer survival rate from 20{f8c4044094f0124bf860299a0114a5d2e06bca667624d2e0543982a5c74fb3d7} (where it stood when Danny Thomas founded the organization) to 80{f8c4044094f0124bf860299a0114a5d2e06bca667624d2e0543982a5c74fb3d7} (where it stands today). In 1962, a child diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), the most common form of childhood cancer, faced a 4{f8c4044094f0124bf860299a0114a5d2e06bca667624d2e0543982a5c74fb3d7} chance of survival. Today, thanks in no small part to the incredible efforts of St. Jude s, that figure has increased to 94{f8c4044094f0124bf860299a0114a5d2e06bca667624d2e0543982a5c74fb3d7}.
