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Finding Cures. Saving Children.

Disease Information

Hospital Resources

Bench to Bedside

Study targets stroke prevention in children with sickle cell anemia

St. Jude investigators were recently awarded a $23 million federal grant to launch a national study of the drug hydroxyurea to prevent first strokes in children and adolescents with sickle cell anemia.

Clinical Science

Our mission - to find cures for children with catastrophic diseases through research and treatment - is a constant driving force. It is through the pursuit of that mission that we seize every opportunity to help the children who come to us for care and, in so doing, to create new knowledge that will help children throughout the world.

Why refer a patient to St. Jude for treatment?

Personality an important predictor of coping with cancer stress

Children with anxious personalities are more likely to experience symptoms of post-traumatic stress than childhood cancer survivors, St. Jude researchers report.

Scientific Report

Key research activities and publications by the investigators at St. Jude during 2008 are summarized in the Scientific Report 2009.

In the News

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and UF Proton Therapy Institute to begin proton therapy clinical trial

St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the University of Florida Proton Therapy Institute have formed a collaboration to provide proton therapy for St. Jude patients. The announcement follows the approval of the first clinical study to evaluate the use of proton therapy for rare brain cancers in children younger than 3 years old.

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