Gift boosts efforts to understand and combat rare cancers – News-Medical.Net

Curing cancer has been the dream of countless doctors and researchers over the decades. Yet some types of cancer, whether because they affect relatively few people or lack influential advocates, receive less attention and funding than others.
A recent gift to Harvard Medical School is boosting efforts to understand and combat these understudied malignancies.
Established at HMS in 2019 by the Switzerland-based Bertarelli Foundation, the Bertarelli Rare Cancers Fund provides $15 million in support…

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