Join WJBC and St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in the Fight Against Childhood Cancer

Posted on February 13, 2025
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Pictured top to bottom, left to right: St. Jude Patients Aditya, Miguel, Cypress, Kinsley with family, and Gabrielle

The annual WJBC St. Jude Radiothon is underway benefitting St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and we’re asking for your donations.

Become a Partner in Hope today by calling 1-800-374-4995 and pledging $19 a month on a credit or debit card.
Or visit stjude.org/radio/wjbc to donate online.

To become a Partner in Hope today
call 1-800-374-4995
and pledge just $19 a month on a credit or debit card.

When you become a Partner in Hope you will receive the #ThisShirtSavesLives shirt!

Join us in supporting the lifesaving work of St. Jude, where they won’t stop fighting until no child dies from cancer.

When you become a Partner in Hope you help ensure some pretty amazing things.

You help ensure families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing or food — because all a family should worry about is helping their child live.

You help ensure St. Jude continues to lead the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases.

You help ensure St. Jude continues to save children at their hospital. Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20% in 1962 to more than 80% now.

You help ensure St. Jude helps save children around the world. St. Jude freely shares the discoveries it makes, and every child saved at St. Jude means doctors and scientists worldwide can use that knowledge to save thousands more children. You help ensure that the ultimate goal of St. Jude is reached. That goal is that no child should ever lose their life to cancer.

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