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...
View Article‘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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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...
View ArticleDesensitization 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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