Hope is a very powerful word. It is a word filled with love and optimism, and if you have a loved one fighting cancer, it's a word you use often.

That is why we are asking you, GNA Nation, to give these families fighting for their lives at St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital the hope they desperately need.

Join us this Thursday and Friday for the most important two days on GNA. Brian, Chrissy, Matty, and Jess will take you through the journey of families and patients who need your help to find a cure for childhood cancer.

It's GNA's 21st Annual Country Cares For St. Jude Kids Radiothon presented by Dom's Pizza, Subs, and Wings. We are so close to eradicating childhood cancer, but we are asking you to get us to a 100% survival rate.

We will do all we can through personal stories and powerful country songs with stories from St. Jude kids. You will hear the hope in their stories and songs, and we will count on you to pick up the phone and call 1-800-372-4999 to become a St. Jude Partner In Hope for only $19 a month.

St. Jude has been leading the charge for more than 70 years. Even though all that time has passed, St. Jude always delivers hope. Hope for St. Jude kids and kids in our local hospitals fighting cancer because their research and treatments are shared with us right here in the Capital Region.

Amazingly, St. Jude and your generosity have brought the survival rate for childhood cancer close to 90 percent. But because of that last 10 percent, the fight isn't over.  A 100% survival is the only acceptable result.

St. Jude will continue to provide hope, love, and support, but we rely on you to help us get closer to a cure so that no child dies at the dawn of life.

For the next two days, we ask you to open your heart when you hear the powerful stories of St. Jude kids and the emotion in their parents' voices about how thankful they are that St. Jude exists.

Even the parents whose stories do not have happy endings will tell you how important St. Jude has been in their journey. We invite you to share the hope that is the common thread among them.

Please become a Partner In Hope today.

Upstate New York Country Concert Calendar

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