Facts at a Glance

Clinical Care

The only National Cancer Institute "comprehensive" cancer center serving California’s Central Valley and inland Northern California, a region of 6 million people
Cares for more than 100,000 adults and children each year
More than 200 adult and pediatric cancer clinical trials under way
Affiliate cancer centers through the Cancer Care Network in Marysville, Truckee, Cameron Park, and South Lake Tahoe offering patients state-of-the-art cancer care close to home
Highly trained oncology-certified nurses
Provides a full range of prevention, diagnosis, treatment, survivorship and hospice/palliative care programs for children and adults

$50 million in research funding with nearly 240 scientists at work on over 300 projects, distributed among 43 UC Davis departments and seven schools, including the School of Veterinary Medicine
Collaboration with JAX-West Laboratories to develop better research models for new therapies
SCOPE: a city-wide phase I clinical research program offering novel therapies to patients throughout the region
Leaders in translational research, with achievements in:
- Combinatorial chemistry and novel nanotherapeutics for drug delivery and imaging
- Anti-androgen and other novel therapeutic approaches for advanced prostate cancer
- Basic science in DNA damage and repair and signal transduction
- Glycomics in cancer diagnosis, prognosis and imaging
- Biomedical technologies including EXPLORER, the world’s first total-body PET scanner
- Comparative oncology studies using pet dogs with spontaneous tumors to test novel therapies for human patients
Robust research, education and outreach to reduce vaccine-preventable cancers and cancers disproportionately affecting racial/ethnic minorities.