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Finding Cures. Saving Children.

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Bench to Bedside

Study tracks long-term challenges facing survivors of childhood CNS tumors

The most comprehensive study yet of long-term survivors of childhood central nervous system (CNS) tumors details risks some survivors face decades after their diagnosis, prompting a renewed call for improved follow-up care.

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.

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St. Jude researchers find that MRI can replace biopsy for monitoring iron

Nobody likes needles. So it’s good news that St. Jude researchers have found they can replace one big needle with a magnet. The needle is used to take a liver biopsy sample to measure the body’s iron level; and the magnet is the heart of a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) machine.

Scientific Report

Key research activities and publications by the investigators at St. Jude during 2007 are summarized in the Scientific Report 2008.

In the News

Acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the most common childhood cancer, is curable without preventive cranial radiation

Childhood acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) can be successfully treated using a carefully personalized chemotherapy regimen without cranial radiation, investigators at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital have found. Such radiation of the brain was once a standard ALL treatment to prevent recurrence of the leukemia in the central nervous system (CNS).

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