October 23, 2025
Volume 55 - No. 43
SAVING CHILDREN’S LIVES
by lyle e davis I can think of no more painful words to hear than . . “I’m so sorry . . . but your child has a very aggressive form of cancer that is nearly always terminal.” And I can think of no more encouraging words than . . “but we’re going to do everything we can to cure your child.” This dialogue and dialogues like it
have taken place hundreds, thousands of times . . . at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. And the results have been phenomenal. 80% of children who enter the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital survive! That’s the good news. But what of the other 20% who don’t make it? Doctors and staff at this hospital
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are feverishly working to reduce that 20% to an even lower figure. Thanks to people like you . . . chances are very good they will succeed. Families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food. No family receives a bill. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital was founded by tv entertainer Danny Thomas in 1962, it is a 501 designated nonprofit medical corporation which focuses on children’s
catastrophic diseases, particularly leukemia and other cancers. Danny Thomas named the hospital after St. Jude Thaddeus, the patron saint of hopeless causes, because he made a vow to build a shrine to the saint after praying for guidance during a difficult time in his life. His success in entertainment allowed him to fulfill this promise by founding St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to help children with catastrophic diseases.
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