Expanding the Together by St. Jude™ Online Resource to Support More Families
The Together by St. Jude™ online resource has been updated to help even more families. The site now covers blood disorders and infectious diseases as well as childhood and adolescent cancer.
For families facing serious childhood illnesses, having clear and reliable information is essential.
For the past 6 years, the Together by St. Jude™ online resource has been a trusted source of information and education for families dealing with childhood and adolescent cancer. We are now expanding our content to also cover blood disorders and infectious diseases. Our goal is to empower you with the knowledge and resources you need.
What's new?
Patients, families, and health care providers have helped us improve the site. Here is what you will find in each new section:
- Conditions: Learn more about childhood and adolescent cancers, blood disorders, and infectious diseases. We have added content for each condition to help you understand your child’s illness.
- Treatments, Tests, and Procedures: This section explains treatments, tests, and procedures for serious childhood illnesses. It also covers side effects, clinical trials, complementary therapies, and medicines.
- Medical Care: Learn about paying for medical care, the types of care teams, clinical and home care, infection prevention, clinical nutrition, palliative care, and other support services.
- Emotional Support and Daily Life: Serious illness affects the whole family. We offer tips for handling daily life, emotional health, family support, transition to adult care, and much more.
- Videos and Resources: Explore videos, blog posts, and a glossary. Age-specific resources include the Teens&20s section for adolescents and young adults. There are also coloring books for younger patients.
How this affects you
These updates are designed to make it easy for you to find the information you need. Your existing bookmarks will still work. You can also use our new search tool to find anything on the site.
We encourage you to explore the updated website and share it with others who may benefit from these resources. We constantly add new content, so subscribe to our email newsletter for the latest updates.
If you have questions or comments, please email us at together@stjude.org.
We are glad you are here!