Meet patients you are helping
Your generous support helps ensure our lifesaving mission: Finding cures. Saving children.® Everywhere.
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Meet Beckett
Even at 2 years old, Beckett was a very verbal child, able to describe how he felt. Beckett was ultimately diagnosed with ATRT, an agressive form of brain cancer. Read Beckett's story.
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Meet Liliana
Liliana is a patient at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital where she was treated for liver cancer at 8 years old.
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Meet Chance
In 2021, Chance was diagnosed with a metastic brain tumor called medulloblastoma. He was referred to St. Jude where he has received chemotherapy and proton therapy treatments to his brain and spine.
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Meet Eliza
When Eliza was 4 months old, her pediatrician referred her to an ophthalmologist after testing her eyes. The ophthalmologist, in turn, referred Eliza to St. Jude because a tumor was visible in the baby’s right eye.
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Meet Rinoa
In 2022, Rinoa was scheduled for an MRI due to headaches and other symptoms. The night before the scan, she developed double vision, and at that point, her mother, Kary, knew they would find something wrong in her daughter’s brain. It was a cancerous brain tumor called medulloblastoma.
Families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food — so they can focus on helping their child live.
*Items listed here are representative of services and supplies that are part of the treatment and care of children at St. Jude. The cost of each item or service is an approximation, and will vary based on actual costs incurred and individual patient needs. Your donation will be used for the general operating needs of St. Jude, where no family ever receives a bill for treatment, lodging, travel or food.
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Your donation could help provide one rehabilitation ball for patients!
Rehabilitation balls help patients regain strength and mobility after cancer treatment.
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Your donation could help provide 5 medical teaching dolls to St. Jude patients.
Medical teaching dolls help St. Jude’s youngest patients better understand their illnesses and treatment.
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Your donation could help provide two days of meals to St. Jude patients!
Healthy food is an important part of treatment for St. Jude patients.
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Your donation could help provide St. Jude with a red wagon!
Red wagons are the preferred mode of travel for the youngest patients at St. Jude.
St. Jude patient Swayzie and her mom
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Because of your support, we can provide children cutting-edge treatments not covered by insurance, at no cost to families.
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Other patients you help
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Meet Avery
Avery was diagnosed with sickle cell disease soon after birth and she received a bone marrow transplant at St. Jude in early 2023. Her donor was one of her older sisters.
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Meet Misheel
Misheel was diagnosed with brain cancer and was referred to St. Jude, where she has received treatment, which included chemotherapy and radiation therapy. She has refused to let her illness keep her from spreading joy to others.
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Meet Yazleemar
Yazleemar is an outgoing and expressive teenager. In 2012, Yazleemar was diagnosed with retinoblastoma, a rare cancer. St. Jude offered more than treatment to her and her family.
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Meet Mila
Mila was found to have both Down Syndrome and a leukemia precursor. She underwent months of chemotherapy at St. Jude for acute myeloid leukemia, but even on days she didn’t feel great, she was smiling and playing.
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Meet Charlie
Diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma in his shoulder, Charlie was referred to St. Jude then underwent chemotherapy and surgery to replace a cancerous bone with titanium.
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Meet Ava
At 6 years old, Ava had a lump on her neck and tests showed she had more lumps in her belly. Tests revealed that she had a cancerous tumor and was referred to St. Jude.