Case Study: St. Jude Cancer Research Hospital

I have chosen the group from the St Jude Cancer Research Hospital. They are the people that continued to pursue liberty and happiness for years. They believe every child deserves a chance for happiness and has the right to medical care. I truly believe that as scientist continues to do more research, they will find cures for the catastrophic diseases of childhood. The hospital’s main concern is the health of children with cancer, but eventually they will advance to help everyone else. Perhaps the most nationally recognized devotee of Saint Jude during the last half of the 20th century was Danny Thomas.
St Jude’s was founded by Danny Thomas who at the time was a struggling actor with a wife and three children. He was not making too much money
Jude’s and the IOP which is the International Outreach Program is to is to treat the terminal illnesses of children including diseases such as Cancer, Sickle Cell Disease, brain tumors, HIV and AIDS, and many others. Treatments of Cancer vary from case to case. Some treatments involve chemotherapy; which is the treatment of cancer with drugs that can destroy cancer cells, along with the healthy non-cancer cells. Sometimes Chemotherapy causes the patients hair to fall out. Some of the impact they have is continued focus on pediatric cancer, AIDS research, research on acute lymphocytic leukemia (80% cure rate), with an annual budget of $100 million and a Congressional Gold Medal and Nobel Prize. (St Jude, 2010) Their outreach program is wonderful with the right attitude and goal. They are beginning to look at cancer at a cellular level to try and find how it works and what might trigger it. With the mutations this disease goes through it can be hard to treat. St Jude’s is ready for that challenge. They not only impact us in the US, but they get together with people around the world to help find a cure for this international problem. Cancer does not just affect one rare, religion, sex - it can affect anyone. “An international team led by St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital’ scientist has developed a new approach that uses genomic information from different species to understand the biology that drives the formation of these different cancer subtypes.” (PRNewswire, 2010) Being able to bring professionals from around the world together for a common goal is a spectacular