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How our patients help create a healing environment

Look closely at some of the steel beams that support Dana-Farber’s Yawkey Center for Cancer Care and you’ll see the names of patients spray-painted in bright colors by ironworkers during the building’s...

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‘Designed by patients like me’: A patient’s perspective on the Yawkey Center

As a Dana-Farber employee planning events for the opening of Dana-Farber’s Yawkey Center for Cancer Care, I knew the building was designed with guidance from patients and families. But I had no idea...

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How a healing environment helps

As recently as a decade ago, a visit to the hospital sometimes meant entering a cold, synthetic setting. But the tide is changing. A growing body of research indicates that creating what’s commonly...

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Desensitization Helps Patients Overcome Allergy to Chemotherapy

Just as people may wheeze and itch in the presence of cats or pollen, a minority of cancer patients become allergic to the very drugs that are fighting their disease.Reactions can be mild to severe or...

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