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St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, depicted in a painting by a young patient, wants to boost childhood cancer survival rates around the world. Spurred by innovative treatments, roughly 80% of children diagnosed with cancer in the U.S. today will likely survive the disease. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, in Memphis, has played a major role in this encouraging trend. Since its founding in 1962, St. Jude has made its treatments accessible regardless of a family’s ability to pay. St. Jude has now renewed its focus on the rest of the world, specifically poorer countries where cancer cure rates are still around 20%-what it was in the U.S. when St. Jude first opened its doors.

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