24th annual St. Jude Fashion Show to benefit children fighting cancer, other life-threatening diseases at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital®

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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital

Nov 01, 2018, 10:30 ET

CHICAGO, Nov. 1, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- St. Jude Children's Research Hospital^® will be front and center at the 24^thannual St. Jude Fashion Show and luncheon from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 18, at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center in Rosemont.

This year's guest speaker will be Dr. Jason Schwartz, M.D., a St. Jude doctor and junior faculty member in the Hematology department who also does research in the Pathology department. He credits St. Jude for saving his life after receiving treatment at the hospital for acute lymphoblastic leukemia as a child.

Three generations of the same family walk the runway at the 2017 St. Jude Fashion Show: (from left) Childhood cancer survivor Tayde, who received lifesaving treatment at St. Jude, her young daughter and her mother. Photo credit: by John Kalad and John Giesecke

Ranked by BizBash as Chicago's No. 5 Top Fashion Event, the event will feature fashion by Zzazz Productions and outerwear by York Furrier. Additionally, there will be raffle drawings, a champagne reception and luncheon. Master of Ceremonies Zoraida Sambolin from Chicago's NBC 5 will emcee the event.

Events like this help raise awareness and support for the St. Jude mission: Finding cures. Saving children.^® Thanks to generous donors, 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.

For more information, visit stjudefashionshow.com.

About St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is leading the way the world understands, treats and defeats childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. Its purpose is clear: Finding cures. Saving children.^® It is the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center devoted solely to children. Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20 percent to more than 80 percent since the hospital opened more than 50 years ago. St. Jude won't stop until no child dies from cancer. 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. 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. Join the St. Jude mission by visiting stjude.org, liking St. Jude on Facebook, following St. Jude on Twitter and Instagram and subscribing to its YouTube channel.

SOURCE St. Jude Children's Research Hospital