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The Tufts Medical Center Cancer Center in Boston is home to expert physicians, scientists and researchers passionate about fighting cancer.

Aside from skin cancer, prostate cancer is the most common form of cancer in American men.

With the explosion in novel cancer therapies, cancer outcomes have improved dramatically resulting in a growing population of cancer survivors. Simultaneously, there has been a rise in cardiovascular side effects of these cancer therapies that is limiting quality of life and life expectancy of cancer survivors.

A research program that targets the discovery and application of nutritional and dietary approaches to prevent colorectal cancer.

A list of current health literacy research initiatives.

Patients and visitors using the main entrance of the hospital may park in the central parking lot or parking garage at our campuses.

The Jaffe laboratory is focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms by which blood vessels become dysfunctional to lead to common cardiovascular conditions, including heart attack, stroke, high blood pressure, in-stent restenosis, vein graft failure and heart failure. We are interested in understanding how traditional risk factors like aging, obesity, high blood pressure or high cholesterol, or new risk factors like novel cancer treatments, cause blood vessels to become diseased. We are also focused on understanding sex differences in how these cardiovascular diseases develop, in order to identify sex-specific precision medicine strategies.

Tufts Medical Center is a world-class academic medical center located in Boston and the principal teaching hospital for Tufts University School of Medicine.

Formal, structured, case-based tumor boards are held weekly for each disease site at each location at which time presentation of new cases and treatment plans are discussed.

Did you know Tufts Medical Center is the oldest hospital in Boston? Tufts Medical Center was established as the Boston Dispensary and was the first operating medical center in New England- and the third in the United States. It was commissioned by Paul Revere.

Meet the faculty who run the Dermatology Residency Program.

In the Department of Pathology, there is a real bond that is formed between all classes of residents, fellows and attendings that extends into our social lives.