The Dana-Farber Most cancers Institute raised $2.5 billion over a seven-year marketing campaign, finishing one of many largest fundraising initiatives completely centered on most cancers Monday.
“It has been an honor to lead this historic campaign that has allowed Dana-Farber to make great strides in cancer research and patient care,” stated Laurie Glimcher, the outgoing president and CEO of Dana-Farber, who stepped down Monday. “I am grateful to the many benefactors whose generosity and dedication have enabled remarkable progress in the ambitious effort to find cures for cancer.”
The Dana-Farber Marketing campaign, which launched in Oct. 2017 and was introduced in Could 2021, raised funds for the institute’s medical trials, will increase in affected person care and diagnoses, and initiatives in areas together with prevention and early detection.
The Dana-Farber Most cancers Institute makes a speciality of most cancers care and analysis, providing over 1,100 medical trials. The group stats estimate round one in three ladies and one in two males will develop most cancers of their lifetime.
The seven-year marketing campaign included donations from all 50 U.S. states and 117 international locations, the institute stated, and over 2.2 million items from greater than 900,000 donors. The most important single contributor was the Pan-Mass Problem, a annual bike-a-thon, with $425 million raised by means of over two million items over the seven years.
Michael Eisenson, chair of the Dana-Farber Marketing campaign, stated marketing campaign funds “have already helped Dana-Farber make progress for our patients and families.”
The fundraising marketing campaign has helped broaden the medical trial program by greater than 22% within the final seven years, the institute famous, and over doubled the scale of the Most cancers Care Fairness Program.
The group stated fundraising assisted creation of three new affected person care services in Merrimack Valley, Chestnut Hill, and Foxborough during the last 5 years, bringing the whole services to seven. The Dana-Farber Facilities for Early Detection, a “first-of-its-kind, integrated clinic to increase early detection of precancerous conditions and to prevent cancer,” additionally opened in 2023.
The institute will host a celebration for the marketing campaign’s completion with donors and others within the spring.
The incoming Dana-Farber President and CEO Benjamin Ebert stated he “looks forward to continuing momentum in this next chapter.”
“The vast community of support during this campaign helped exceed our lofty goals, enabling breakthroughs in the laboratory and the development of life-saving therapies for cancer patients,” stated Ebert. “While the incidence of cancer is rising in the U.S., I am hopeful for the future and inspired by the new treatments that are transforming cancer care.”
Employees Picture By Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald
The Pan Mass Problem was the only largest fundraiser throughout a multi-year marketing campaign by the Dana Farber Most cancers Institute that raised greater than .5 billion to fund most cancers analysis and care. (Employees Picture By Stuart Cahill/Boston Herald, File)
