TKE's Biannual Swing-A-Thon for St. Jude

Come out to Commons Terrace and help the brothers of Tau Kappa Epsilon swing for 24 hours to raise money for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital! Come out anytime between 10/17 12:00 PM and 10/18 12:00 PM and swing on our home made wooden swing-set. We will be playing games and music to help attract attention and help inform the community about the fantastic research being conducted at St. Jude!

We will be raffling off several prizes including but not limited to gift cards, clothing, and accessories.

***Facts about St. Jude  (Taken from http://www.stjude.org)

• Families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing and food – because all a family should worry about is helping their child live.
• Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20 percent to more than 80 percent since it opened in 1962.
• St. Jude is working to drive the overall survival rate for childhood cancer to 90 percent in the next decade. We won’t stop until no child dies from cancer.
• St. Jude freely shares the breakthroughs we make, and every child saved at St. Jude means doctors and scientists worldwide can use that knowledge to save thousands more children.
• Because the majority of St. Jude funding comes from individual contributors, St. Jude has the freedom to focus on what matters most – saving kids regardless of their financial situation.
• St. Jude was founded by the late entertainer Danny Thomas, who believed that “No child should die in the dawn of life.”

• St. Jude is where doctors send their toughest cases because St. Jude has the world’s best survival rates for the most aggressive childhood cancers.
• We are a top national referral center for children with tough-to-treat forms of cancer or who have not responded successfully to standard treatments.
• St. Jude is the only National Cancer Institute-designatedComprehensive Cancer Center devoted solely to children.
• St. Jude has helped increase the survival rates for acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) from 4% before opening in 1962 to 94% today.
• We develop new treatments that reduce side effects while maintaining or improving outcomes, so that survivors of childhood cancer can have the best possible long-term health.
• Because we have seen our patients with brain tumors improve dramatically through proton therapy, we are building the world’s first proton therapy center dedicated solely to treating children.
• St. Jude researchers and doctors have research and treatment programs for children with pediatric HIV and AIDS, as well as using new drugs and therapies to fight related infections.
• St. Jude was the first institution to develop a cure for sickle cell disease with a bone marrow transplant and has one of the largestpediatric sickle cell disease programs in the country.
• St. Jude was the first pediatric cancer research center in the U.S. with an on-site current Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) facility, which produces innovative biopharmaceuticals and other products for use in St. Jude-led clinical trials.
• St. Jude has treated children from all 50 states and around the world.
• On average, St. Jude has more than 67,000 patient visits each year.
• We shared our research results in 775 articles published in peer-reviewed journals in 2012. That equals, on average, a new discovery shared every 11 hours.
• St. Jude has been recognized by FORTUNE magazine as one of the “100 Best Companies to Work For,” by The Scientist as one of the top 10 “Best Places to Work in Academia,” and by U.S. News & World Report and Parents magazine as a top children’s cancer hospital.
• The daily operating cost for St. Jude is $2 million, which is primarily covered by individual contributions.

For more information on the great work being conducted at St.Jude visitstjude.org