THE PAN-MASS CHALLENGE announced a gift of $45 million to support adult and pediatric patient care and cancer research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, bringing the PMC’s 36-year fundraising total to a half-billion dollars raised since the organization’s inception in 1980.
How’s this for a paradox: The better cancer centers become at keeping patients alive, the more expensive cancer care becomes. This brutal tradeoff hits harder in rural areas, where the cancer burden is higher and the investigator and clinical trial representation is lower.
