Dana-Farber Cancer InstituteFacility

Originally founded by Sidney Farber, MD as Children's Cancer Research Foundation, and dedicated to providing compassionate, state-of-the-art treatment to children with cancer while developing the cancer preventatives, treatments, and cures of the future. The foundation officially expanded its programs to include patients of all ages in 1969, and in 1974 became known as the Sidney Farber Cancer Center in honor of its founder.