St. Jude Children's Research Hospital Case Study

In discussions of Danny Thomas and his creation of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, I believe this point in time was important because, it provided help for families to get the proper treatment and care their children fighting against illnesses need. The following points illustrate the importance of this turning point in time: Danny’s reason for starting the hospital, the research the hospital does to treat children, and how the hospital raises the money it needs. This person impacted me because what he started saved a lot of children’s lives.

After struggling with his acting career for a while Danny Thomas went to a church in Detroit. "Show me my way in life, and I will build you a shrine" Danny vowed to St. Jude Thaddeus, a patron saint of hopeless causes. Some

Jude Children’s Research Hospital). Acute lymphoblastic leukemia most often occurs in children from ages 3-5 found in boys more than girls. There are many different treatments for these disease, which include Chemotherapy, Radiation therapy and Stem cell transplants. About 90% of those children can be cured. Patients are considered cured after 10 years in remission (St.Jude Children’s Research Hospital). The development and successful application of preventive therapy for meningeal leukemia, followed by the intensification of systemic chemotherapy, has progressively improved the rate of cure of childhood lymphoblastic leukemia (Rivera et al. [1289]). Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall survival rate for childhood cancer from 20% when the hospital opened in 1962 to more than 80% today (St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital). Treatments for this type of cancer is very expensive and Danny wanted to help families focus more on their child than worrying about the costs of