PHOENIX (AZ Family) — Arizona’s Family partners with Children’s Research Hospital St. Jude for his Dream Home Giveaway – Arizona’s first.

The gift will raise $1 million for the hospital.

If you are not familiar with the incredible work done at Children’s Research Hospital St. countyhere’s more information about the world’s leading children’s cancer research hospital:

• Located in Memphis, Tennessee, Children’s Research Hospital St. Jude is a leader in how the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases.
• The families not receive an invoice from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food – so they can focus on helping their child live.
• The treatments invented at St. Jude’s have helped raise the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20% to more than 80% since it opened in 1962. And they won’t stop until no child dies of cancer.
• Since most of the funding of St. Jude comes from individual contributions, St. Jude has the freedom to focus on what matters most – saving children, regardless of their financial situation.
• St. Jude cares for some of the sickest children in the world, regardless of their race, ethnicity, beliefs or ability to pay. Patients receive the personalized care they need to treat childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases, regardless of the barriers they may face.
• St. Jude has treated children in all 50 states and around the world.
• St. Jude treats more than 8,000 patients each year for childhood cancer and other catastrophic illnesses, most of whom are treated as outpatients.

DONATE ST. JUDE CHILDREN’S RESEARCH HOSPITAL IS HERE

Childhood Cancer Facts:

• Pediatric cancer is the leading cause of death by disease among US children aged 1 to 14 years.
• Each year, approximately 16,000 children and adolescents in the US are diagnosed with cancer.
• Almost 10% of children with cancer develop the disease because of a genetic condition.
• Thanks in part to better therapies that helped St. Jude to develop, more than 80% of childhood cancer patients in the US now become long-term survivors.

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