The mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is to advance cures, and means of prevention, for pediatric catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. Consistent with the vision of our founder Danny Thomas, no child is denied treatment based on race, religion, or a family's ability to pay. Families never receive a bill for treatment, lodging, travel, or food.
Since opening its doors in 1962, St. Jude has led the way the world understands, treats, and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases.
Why St. Jude?
Our laboratories may not be in your communities, but our discoveries are.
Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20% to more than 80% since it opened more than 50 years ago. And we won't stop until no child dies from cancer.
Because St. Jude shares the breakthroughs it makes, and every child saved at St. Jude means doctors and scientists worldwide can use that knowledge to save thousands more children.
St. Jude is where doctors often send their toughest cases, because St. Jude has some of the world’s best survival rates for some of the most aggressive forms of childhood cancer.
St. Jude treats children from all 50 states and around the world.
Financial Highlights
The support of donors gives St. Jude the freedom to focus on what matters most -- saving children regardless of their financial situation.
$203,074
average cost to treat just one child with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (the most common form of childhood cancer).
St. Jude patient, Faith
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is a national resource with a global mission. Join us in our lifesaving mission:
Finding Cures. Saving Children.
