How Funds are Used

Reimagining cancer care starts with you. Your donations help Dana-Farber make new discoveries and advancements that improve outcomes for cancer patients worldwide, and funds raised enable us to continue delivering expert, compassionate, and equitable care to every patient who walks through our doors.

Your money supports the latest, lifechanging cancer care and treatment work at Dana-Farber, including: 

• Advancing our signature “total patient care” for patients and their families
• Fueling basic research to uncover breakthroughs in cancer science
• Increasing the number of clinical trials available to patients in New England and around the world
• Reducing the risk of a cancer occurrence or recurrence through cancer prevention, detection, and interception
• Improving the health of all members of our communities, locally and globally
• Ensuring quality long-term care and support for patients after treatment ends
• Maintaining a world-class faculty and state-of-the-art facilities 

“Our family wants to give back to Dana-Farber Cancer Institute after they gave us the greatest gift of all: our daughter’s life.”  

Michael, father of pediatric patient Sonnie (pictured below on the left with her sister)