Affiliations
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute collaborates with a variety of hospitals and research institutions to provide our patients with the best possible cancer care.
Clinical Affiliations
Brigham and Women's Hospital
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women's Hospital collaborate to provide adult cancer care, with outpatient services at Dana-Farber’s Longwood campus and regional campus locations, and inpatient care at Brigham and Women’s Hospital. Adult patients are cared for in 16 specialized centers focused on different cancer types, where multidisciplinary teams provide coordinated evaluation and treatment.
Dana-Farber Beth Israel Deaconess Cancer Collaboration
In 2026, Dana-Farber will begin the transition to its new clinical collaboration with Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) and Harvard Medical Faculty Physicians (HMFP).
Dana-Farber Beth Israel Deaconess Cancer Collaboration will give patients the best of both worlds: dedicated cancer care led by Dana-Farber clinicians alongside immediate access to BIDMC’s surgical and other specialty services and affiliated faculty physicians. Together, Dana-Farber and BIDMC — both world-class, Harvard-affiliated teaching hospitals — share a vision for a future-ready model of dedicated cancer care that advances the patient and caregiver experience, expands access to value-driven care, and fosters scientific discovery.
Dana-Farber is also building a new 300-bed inpatient hospital at One Joslin Place, dedicated exclusively to the needs of adult cancer patients.
Dana-Farber/Boston Children's Cancer and Blood Disorders Center
Through a long-standing collaboration between Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Boston Children's Hospital, outpatient care for children is provided at Dana-Farber's Jimmy Fund Clinic while neighboring Boston Children's Hospital offers inpatient care and pediatric subspecialty consultation. The two institutions function as one to provide a seamless care experience for children with cancer.
The Jimmy Fund Clinic is specifically designed for the comfort and convenience of children with cancer and their families in an outpatient setting. It has a playroom for young children, a separate activities room for teens, spacious exam and procedures rooms, and separate chemotherapy rooms for young children and teens. Private chemotherapy rooms are available for patients at high risk of infection.
Three units at Boston Children's Hospital are dedicated to the inpatient care of children with cancer. A patient activity room is available for young children and teens. Surgery and diagnostic imaging, such as MRI and CT scans, are also provided at Boston Children's Hospital.
Research Affiliations
Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center
In an effort to better harness the research resources of Harvard University to fight cancer, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute has joined with Harvard School of Public Health, Harvard Medical School, and four of its affiliated hospitals to create the Dana-Farber/Harvard Cancer Center (DF/HCC).
The institutions – which include Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital, and Massachusetts General Hospital – collaborate on clinical and basic research, cancer prevention, and new treatments and therapies to provide better outcomes for cancer patients.
DF/HCC's researchers, who number more than 1000, have access to 18 core facilities, many of which are large laboratories with equipment and facilities that are generally too expensive for any one researcher, or often, any one institution, to invest in alone. A large series of collaborative programs are organized around research on specific diseases (such as breast, gynecologic, leukemia, lymphoma, and prostate cancer). Other programs are structured by research disciplines, such as biostatistics, cancer immunology, outcomes research, and experimental therapeutics.
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute's designation by the National Cancer Institute as comprehensive cancer center was expanded to include the entire DF/HCC in 2000.