Stᅠ. Jude Children’s Hospital launched first major effort to understand progression of sickle cell disease

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In 1966, a group of St. Jude patients were the first acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) patients to ever be successfully taken off therapy, based on evidence that remission can be sustained. St. ᅠJude Children’s Research Hospital was founded in 1962 by actor Danny Thomas.

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