2009 Fall/Winter Paths of Progress

Dana-Farber by the Numbers

Some of the figures that add up to Dana-Farber's leading cancer care and research.

Maureen Akisik, RT(R)(M) inside Dana-Farber's new Mammography Van 

2

Number of discoveries by Dana-Farber scientists that ranked among the top 10 scientific breakthroughs of 2008, as rated by Science magazine.

285,000

Square feet of clinical, clinical research, and support space that will be added by the opening of Dana-Farber's state-of-the-art Yawkey Center for Cancer Care (opening in 2011).

11 million

Weight (in pounds) of structural steel used to build the frame of the 14-story Yawkey Center.

262

Number of registered nurses who care for patients in the outpatient departments at Dana-Farber.

164

Number of registered nurses in the Dana-Farber/Brigham and Women's Cancer Center inpatient units at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

14,000

Size, in square feet, of Dana-Farber's new Lurie Family Imaging Center, a research facility on the South Boston waterfront where scientists use specially designed MRI, CT, PET, ultrasound and optical scanners to explore abnormalities in tumors of laboratory animals, with a goal of speeding the development and testing of drugs targeted at cancer-specific changes.

4,583

Number of donors who gave platelets last year at Dana-Farber's Kraft Family Blood Donor Center.

45

Number of languages spoken by women screened on Dana-Farber's Mammography Van. (The most common languages other than English are Spanish, Haitian Creole, Cape Verdean Creole, Portuguese, and Vietnamese.)

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