The Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center is a member the of the National Cancer Institute (NCI) designated Comprehensive Cancer Center at Harvard, the nation’s largest cancer research center. Other members include, Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health, Beth Israel Deaconess Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Children’s Hospital Boston, and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Together they receive the largest cancer research dollars from the NCI.

Each year over 15,000 new adult and pediatric cancer cases are treated with thousands participating in cancer clinical trials. These trials test many types of treatments, such as new drugs, vaccines, new approaches to surgery or radiation therapy, or new combinations of existing treatments.