Learn more about St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital

PHOENIX (AZ Family) — An Arizona family is partnering with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital for a dream home raffle — the first in Arizona history.

The giveaway will raise $1 million for the hospital.

If you are not familiar with the incredible work done at St. Jude Children’s Research HospitalHere’s more information about the world’s leading children’s cancer research hospital:

Located in Memphis, Tennessee, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital is a world leader in understanding, treating and overcoming childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases.
Families never get a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food – so they can focus on helping their child live.
Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped increase the overall survival rate for childhood cancer from 20% to more than 80% since its discovery in 1962. And they won’t stop until no child dies of cancer.
Since most of the funding of St. Jude comes from individual contributions, St. Jude has the freedom to focus on what matters most – saving children regardless of their financial situation.
St. Jude cares for some of the sickest children in the world regardless of race, ethnicity, creed or ability to pay. Patients receive the personalized care they need to treat childhood cancer and other life-threatening illnesses, no matter what obstacles they may face.
St. Jude has treated children from all 50 states and around the world.
St. Jude treats more than 8,000 patients each year for childhood cancer and other catastrophic illnesses, most of whom are treated as outpatients.

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Facts about childhood cancer:

Pediatric cancer is the leading cause of death in US children aged 1 to 14 years.
Each year, approximately 16,000 children and adolescents in the United States are diagnosed with cancer.
Almost 10% of children with cancer develop this disease due to genetic diseases.
Thanks in part to better treatments that St. Jude helped develop, more than 80% of childhood cancer patients in the US now survive for a long time.

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