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Quick Facts about St. Jude
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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital,
founded by the late entertainer Danny Thomas,
maintains 60 inpatient beds and treats about 260
patients each day, about 5,100 in active status, most of
whom are treated on an outpatient basis.
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It is the first institution established for the sole purpose
of conducting basic and clinical research
into catastrophic childhood diseases,
mainly cancer. St. Jude is the largest childhood
cancer research center in the world in terms of the
number of patients enrolled in research protocols and
successfully treated.
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St. Jude has treated children from all 50 states and from
around the world.
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Research findings at St. Jude are shared with doctors and
scientists all over the world. St. Jude also enjoys a
worldwide reputation as a teaching facility.
The medical and scientific staff published more than 500
articles in academic journals in 2006.
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St. Jude is the only pediatric research center
where families never pay for treatment not covered by
insurance, and families without insurance are never asked to
pay.
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St. Jude continues an extensive expansion program to bolster
the hospital’s research and treatment efforts, while more
than doubling the size of its original campus. The
expansion includes the GMP building, the nation’s only pediatric
research center on-site facility for production of
highly specialized treatments and vaccines, and an
expanded Department of Immunology. The new Chili's Care
Center integrates patient care and research where rapidly
evolving CT (computerized tomography) and
MR (magnetic resonance) technology will
keep St. Jude at the cutting edge for radiation
therapy in a pediatric/adolescent setting.
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The hospital's daily operating costs are approximately
$1,267,349, which are primarily covered by public
contributions.
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More than 85 cents of every dollar received by ALSAC/St.
Jude has gone to the current or future needs of St. Jude.
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St. Jude pioneered a combination of chemotherapy,
radiation and, when necessary, surgery
to treat childhood cancers. The hospital
continues to expand the use of stem cell
transplantation as treatment for pediatric
cancers and genetic diseases.
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Peter C. Doherty, PhD, of the St. Jude Immunology
department, won the Nobel Prize for
Physiology or Medicine in 1996. He shares the award with
Rolf M. Zinkernagel, MD, of the University of Zurich. Their
findings have led to breakthroughs in the understanding and
treatment of viral infections and cancers, and in the
development of organ transplant procedures and vaccines.
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have brought survival rates for childhood cancers
from less than 20 percent to about 70 percent overall. The
current survival rates for selected childhood cancers
now include: |
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Diagnosis |
Survival Rate
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Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), most
common form of childhood cancer |
94%
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Hodgkin disease (cancer of the lymph
system) |
90%
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Medulloblastoma (brain cancer) |
85%
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Wilms tumor (kidney tumor) |
90%
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Each St. Jude patient must be referred by a physician, have
a disease currently under study at the hospital, and be
eligible for a current research protocol.
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St. Jude researchers and doctors are treating children with genetic
immune defects and pediatric AIDS,
as well as using new drugs and therapies to fight
infections.
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St. Jude is a World Health Organization
Collaborating Center for Studies on the Ecology of Influenza
Viruses in Animals and Birds.
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St. Jude operates a stem cell transplant program
that enables doctors to perform approximately 185
transplants per year.
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St. Jude was the first facility outside the National
Institutes of Health to receive federal approval for
research involving human gene therapy.
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The St. Jude faculty includes three National Academy
of Sciences members: Peter C. Doherty, PhD, of
Immunology; Charles Sherr, MD, PhD, of Tumor Cell Biology;
and Robert Webster, PhD, of Infectious Diseases. Sherr,
James Ihle, PhD, of Biochemistry, and Brenda Schulman, PhD,
Structural Biology, hold the coveted title of Howard
Hughes Medical Institute Investigators.
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Since 1998, former St. Jude Director Arthur Nienhuis, MD,
has served on the National Cancer Advisory Board.
Nienhuis was appointed by the President of the United States
to the board, which provides advice to the President, the
Secretary of Health and Human Services, and the director of
the National Cancer Institute.
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St. Jude Children's Hospital
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Chapter 537
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