Tufts Medical Center Cancer Center has treated patients with cancer since the 1940s. Its bone marrow and hematopoietic cell transplant program was the first in Boston to be nationally certified as a transplant and donor collection center, and its Reid R. Sacco Adolescent and Young Adult Program was the first in Boston to deliver personalized, multidisciplinary, survivorship-based care tailored to a patient’s age and disease. The center holds Commission on Cancer accreditation as a comprehensive community cancer program, along with an “Outstanding Achievement Award,” National Accreditation Program for Breast Centers recognition, designation as an American College of Radiology Lung Cancer screening center, and American College of Radiology high practice standards accreditation in radiation oncology. Physicians at the center’s Neely Center for Clinical Cancer Research serve as principal investigators on national clinical trials through the Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology and the Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group, with funding from the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense and cancer research foundations. The center collaborates with research institutes across Tufts University, including the Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging, the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine and the Tufts Clinical and Translational Sciences Institute. Its training programs include a hematology and oncology fellowship and a radiation oncology residency program, whose graduates lead academic hematology and oncology programs, manage hospital transfusion medicine programs and hold editorial positions at medical journals nationwide.
