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How You Can Help Support Dana-Farber Cancer Institute


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    Groundbreaking research. Dedicated, compassionate care. Your support is critical to our work every day. Help us make a difference in the fight against cancer today.

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  • Philanthropy Donation and Contact Information

    Call us: 617-632-3019 | Email us

    Senior Philanthropy Leadership:
    Melany Duval: Senior Vice President, Chief Philanthropy Officer: 617-632-5866
    Liz DeLucia: Vice President, Principal & Major Gifts: 617-632-6573
    Suzanne Fountain: Vice President, Jimmy Fund: 617-632-3864
    Rebecca Gavin: Vice President, Annual, Planned & Institutional Giving: 617-632-3491
    Jeanne Katz Maxbauer: Vice President, Transformational Gifts & Strategic Initiatives: 857-215-1411
    Rebecca DuFault: Associate Vice President, The Dana-Farber Campaign: 617-632-5524

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  • Featured Events

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    Run for Dana-Farber

    Run any race, of any distance, in any city, or join an official Dana-Farber team to raise funds for Dana-Farber and the Jimmy Fund.

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    Boston Marathon® Jimmy Fund Walk presented by Hyundai

    Walk to defy cancer on October 1, 2023.

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    Rally Against CancerSM

    Rally with us to conquer cancer.

  • How Your Support Helps

    Candy Langford and her husband, Larry, on their wedding day in June 2018 — two months before her cancer diagnosis.
    Insight Blog
    2/6/2023

    Treatment Advances and Perfect Partners Give Pancreatic Cancer Patient ‘Gift of Time’

    • Patient Stories, Adult
    • Pancreatic Cancer
    • Gastrointestinal Cancer
    Sara M. Tolaney, MD, MPH
    News Releases
    2/3/2023

    Dana-Farber research supports FDA approval of new therapy for metastatic breast cancer

    • Breast Cancer
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    News Releases
    2/1/2023

    Season two of Unraveled podcast now available

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    News Releases
    2/1/2023

    Four elected to Dana-Farber Board of Trustees

    Ursula A. Matulonis, MD
    News Releases
    1/30/2023

    Results of the SORAYA study show conjugate therapy produced remissions in one-third of patients with drug-resistant ovarian cancer

    • Ovarian Cancer
    Insight Blog
    1/30/2023

    Metastatic Prostate Cancer Can’t Slow Down Grandfather

    • Patient Stories, Adult
    • Prostate Cancer
    • Genitourinary Cancer
    The Boston Globe
    News Coverage
    1/29/2023

    Gene therapy can transform life for people with hemophilia. But some patients don’t want it. (The Boston Globe)

    Insight Blog
    1/26/2023

    Patient with Rare Skin Cancer Has Rapid Remission with Immunotherapy

    • Patient Stories, Adult
    • Skin Cancers (Non-melanoma)
    Insight Blog
    1/26/2023

    Patient with Rare Lymphoma Has Rapid Remission with Immunotherapy

    • Patient Stories, Adult
    • Skin Cancers (Non-melanoma)