Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

This is a Hub that I am a little behind in writing it really should have been one of my first. And I will actually be planning to keep a series of Hubs on this topic as I feel it is a very worthy topic. I only hope and pray my words are worthy enough for the cause and that they can impress on all who read it to help the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital and other Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation's in anyway possible.

First on a personal note I have no affiliation with St. Jude and the only association I have with them is my donations. Now my donations are meager at best I will admit as I like many of you live on a pretty much week to week basis and also like many of you there are certain parts of each month when my pay just covers the bills due that week. But I always try as often as I can to give what I can for Cancer research.

Now I have not been what you would call a lifetime giver to St. Jude. Just over the last few years. I started when after a few times of getting those handy little envelope labels and notepads they mail out. Now I'm sure many of you know what I'm referring to and you probably even used one of the labels yourself mailing a off bill or something. But one day I actually read the letter that came with the labels and a light kind of came on when I realized the services St Jude's and other Cancer Research and Children's Hospitals offer. Not only to the children who are so innocent and undeserving of having this dreadful disease but to the families many of whom are often suffering through several tragedies at the same time.

The main and obvious one of course is seeing their child suffer with something they have no control over. And then there is the added pressure from the financial strain as many of the parents do and rightfully so want to be with their children as much is possible. Those of us with children and who have been blessed not to have to face this can barely begin to imagine the pain and hardship these children and their families go through. I think we all can understand though that if we did face this things like our career's, house's, car's and such would suddenly take a back seat to our child.

And this is where St. Jude Children's Research Hospital becomes a God send to Cancer patients and their families. But this is also where St. Jude along with the children and their families need us. Cancer is as we all know a very expensive disease and all of St. Jude's services are provided on a non profit basis. Here are Some facts about St. Jude Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation.
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital was founded in 1962 by the late entertainer Danny Thomas. Its mission is to find cures for children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases through research and treatment. St. Jude has treated children from all 50 states and from around the world.

On average, 5,400 active patients visit the hospital each year, most of whom are treated on an outpatient basis.
St. Jude has 78 inpatient beds and treats upwards of 250 patients each day.
St. Jude is the first and only pediatric cancer center to be designated as a Comprehensive Cancer Center by the National Cancer Institute.
St. Jude is the first institution established for the sole purpose of conducting basic and clinical research and treatment into catastrophic childhood diseases, mainly cancer.
Research findings at St. Jude are shared freely 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 600 articles in academic journals in 2008, more than any other pediatric cancer research center in the United States. This is an average of a St. Jude paper being published every 17 hours.

St. Jude is the only pediatric cancer research center where families never pay for treatment not covered by insurance. No child is ever denied treatment because of the family’s inability to pay.
St. Jude has developed protocols that have helped push overall survival rates for childhood cancers from less than 20 percent when the hospital opened in 1962 to 80 percent today.
Now please if you just kind of skimmed over this at least read closely the last to point's and let them sink in! This is what caught my heart just realizing the ease this places on the parents of these children. And seeing how much of a difference they have made in Pediatric Cancer Research and how they have changed the survival rate.

Think about that and let's put in visual terms in 1962 if you had 100 children with Cancer over 80 of them died! Compared to today where only 20 would die and I'm sure they are determined to make this number even lower.

So please join me by following the link below and give what ever you can. You will also see many of the other service's they provide and most importantly the children who could be yours or mine and deserve a happy normal life. I hope this Hub will do them some service and touch some of you to give and support a Pediatric Cancer Research Foundation today!

Now even if you can't donate look over their patient and parent section and pick a child by name and pray for them and pray for all those in the Pediatric Cancer Research field.