KMPS St. Jude Radiothon

 

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The St. Jude Story St. Jude Children's Research Hospital owes it's existence to a promise made by a struggling entertainer - Danny Thomas.  Turning to St. Jude Thaddeus, the patron saint of hopeless causes, Thomas vowed: "Show me my way in life, and I will build you a shrine".

That simple promise and his later success as a television star led Thomas to found St. Jude, which opened in 1962.  Today, St. Jude is the single largest center in the United States for the research and treatment of pediatric cancer and other childhood catastrophic diseases in terms of the number of patients enrolled in research protocols and successfully treated.  Working together, St. Jude's physicians and scientists have pioneered treatments that have helped push the overall survival rates for childhood cancer from less than 20 percent in 1962 to more than 70 percent today.  The survival rate for the most common form of childhood cancer, acute lymphoblastic leukemia, has risen from 4 percent in 1962 to 94 percent today.

On average, 4,900 children are in active status at St. Jude at any given time, each enrolled in one of the hospital's specially tailored treatment plans.  Among the diseases treated at St. Jude are malignancies of the lymphatic system (Hodgkin disease), the blood-forming tissues (leukemias), the kidney (Wilms tumor), the bones (Ewing sarcoma and osteosarcoma), brain tumors, genetic diseases and pediatric HIV/AIDS.

All patients accepted for treatment at St. Jude are treated without regard to the family's ability to pay.

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St. Jude Radiothon (Day 1)

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This video player streams Randy Owen's single "Braid My Hair". By clicking on the image you can purchase the single for $1.99, which includes a free ringtone and $1.00 off Owen's upcoming album One On One. Also, 50 cents from each purchase will be donated directly to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital.