The Boston-based Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, which has a satellite facility at Milford Regional Hospital, has reached its $1 billion fundraising goal a year early.
The campaign, entitled “Mission Impossible: The Dana-Farber Campaign to Conquer Cancer,” was originally scheduled to end Sept. 30, 2010. The institute will continue to collect donations to the cause until then.
The institute said that between 2001 and 2008, outpatient visits and infusions at Dana-Farber increased from 128,000 to 264,000. Also during that time, clinical trials available to Dana-Farber patients increased nearly 80 percent.
Dana-Farber is building the new, 14-story, 275,000-square-foot Yawkey Center for Cancer Care in Boston. It is expected to open in 2011.
