St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, located in Memphis, Tennessee, is one of the world's premier biomedical research centers. The institution's mission is to find cures for children with catastrophic diseases through research and treatment.

• Eighty-five cents of every dollar received supports the research and treatment at St. Jude
• No child is ever denied treatment because of the family's inability to pay. St. Jude is the only pediatric cancer research center where families never pay for treatment not covered by insurance.
• St. Jude impacts the lives of children in communities across America.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, founded by the late entertainer Danny Thomas, is one of the world's premier centers for the research and treatment of pediatric cancer and other catastrophic childhood diseases. Children from all 50 states and around the world have come through the doors of St. Jude for treatment, and thousands more around the world have benefited from the research conducted at St. Jude – research that is shared freely with the global medical community.

Working together, our physicians and scientists have pioneered treatments that have helped push the overall survival rates for childhood cancers from less than 20 percent in 1962 to more than 70 percent today. The survival rate for the most common form of childhood cancer, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, has risen from just 4 percent in 1962 to 94 percent today.

St. Jude pays for everything — food, travel, and lodging.

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