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Thanks and Giving® 2024

Give A Gift That Could Last A Lifetime. At Brooks Brothers, we’re exceptionally proud to support St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®. For 20 years, we’ve been working together to end the fight against childhood cancer & other life-threatening diseases. And with your help, we’ve raised more than $24 million! And there’s more: in 2015, we established the Brooks Brothers Computational Biology Center on St. Jude’s Memphis campus. We can defeat childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases with our continued support and dedication. Join us & support St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®. 100% of your donation benefits St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®.

Helping Save Lives Together

With your help, Brooks Brothers has raised more than $24 million for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital since 2005—and in 2015 established the Brooks Brothers Computational Biology Center on the campus of St. Jude in Memphis. St. Jude Thanks and Giving® Campaign, Holiday Celebrations, St. Jude Walk/Run to End Childhood Cancer.

The Brooks Brothers Computational Biology Center

In 2015 we established The Brooks Brothers Computational Biology Center, an innovation that serves as St. Jude’s home for genomic research, working to unlock the genetic code of childhood cancer. Your contribution allows St. Jude to recruit talented scientists and analyze lifesaving data, and to continue the life-saving work of St. Jude.

St. Jude patient Stories: Hudson

Hudson wasn’t gaining weight or meeting certain milestones when he was around 17 months old. One day, his parents received a call from the daycare that he wasn’t waking up from his nap. After visits to doctors and the emergency room, test revealed a brain mass the “size of a grapefruit,” said his mom Adisyn. He was airlifted to a children’s hospital in St. Louis. Doctors diagnosed Hudson with choroid plexus carcinoma (CPC), which consists of rare tumors that start in the brain’s ventricles. Hudson underwent brain surgery and later was placed on a ventilator for four days. Doctors told his parents that they should prepare for the worst. Hudson was referred to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®. “We wanted to give him the best shot that he could get,” Adisyn said. Hudson underwent two brain surgeries to remove the mass and six rounds of chemotherapy at St. Jude. He went back home in the summer of 2022 and returns to St. Jude for regular checkups every three months, his mother said. “It wasn’t until I walked through the doors of St. Jude that I felt calm,’’ Adisyn said. “St. Jude is like family to us.” Hudson is walking, jumping and improving his balance every day. He loves trucks, cars and tractors, which he gets to ride at his grandparents’ farmland in Missouri. There, Hudson also gets to pet cows, chicken and donkeys. A highland cow born around the time that Hudson arrived at St. Jude was named “Jude” by his grandparents.

St. Jude patient Stories: Yara

Yara was hospitalized with RSV and pneumonia in the fall of 2022 and could not get better, which led doctors to request more tests.Yara, who was 3 years old at the time, was later referred to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital®. Tests revealed that the little girl had SAMD9/SAMD9L syndrome, a rare disease caused by gene mutations. The bone marrow in patients with the syndrome cannot make enough blood stem cells. Sometimes, the condition gets better on its own. Other times, it can develop into leukemia. At St. Jude, Yara has received blood transfusions. Since the disorder is hard to predict, doctors monitor Yara closely, said her mom, Brittany. Brittany said living in Tennessee she had known of St. Jude prior to Yara’s diagnosis and had supported fundraisers for the hospital, but she didn’t know that St. Jude treated children with illnesses other than cancer. “You learn as a patient how amazing the research is,” she said. “They say it takes a village to raise a child. St. Jude is part of our village, and they are the healthcare part of our village. We can just make sure she is happy, and they make sure she’s healthy.” Yara, the middle child of 5, will start kindergarten in 2024. She likes art and all things girly, including playing with her dolls, and getting her hair and nails done. She also enjoys traveling with her family. Her favorite destinations are anywhere with sand and water, her mom said.

St. Jude patient Stories: Ivan

Summers for Ivan and his family were about beach trips, amusement parks, summer camp. But the summer of 2019, he seemed dehydrated. He would stop having fun at events. One day his dad heard him crying and something sounded off. He took Ivan to the emergency room where they did a CT scan and found a golf ball-sized tumor in his brain. Ivan was diagnosed with craniopharyngioma, a non-cancerous but dangerous brain tumor. His was attached to his pituitary gland. Ivan underwent surgery at a children’s hospital that removed as much of the tumor as possible, but his family was warned of a 50/50 chance that it would grow back. And in fact, in September 2020, Ivan underwent a second surgery. At this point, his dad sought a referral to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital® where Ivan could receive proton therapy. “You don’t know what to do for your kid. You’re helpless,” said his dad. When he learned that St. Jude could help, he said, “The feeling was, this is the pathway. It was comforting to know that this could better his life. It was just a happy moment.” Ivan underwent six weeks of proton therapy at St. Jude, which shrunk the tumor. A year later, it was just the size of a small raisin. Ivan returns to St. Jude for checkups. He plays baseball, football, golf and video games. He also enjoys cooking.

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