Cancer CareFebruary 14, 2025
The winter issue of Synthesis magazine is available
Check out the digital version or order free print copies of the cancer center’s leading publication
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The winter 2025 issue of Synthesis magazine is available. The biannual magazine of UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center shares news about advanced treatments, promising scientific discoveries and efforts to reach out to the community.
This issue’s cover story features the new MobileMammo+ bus hitting the road, bringing mobile mammography to the community. Services on the 45-foot clinic-on-wheels also includes multilingual care and health education.
The magazine explores the new Head and Neck Malignancies Innovation Group. Teams on both UC Davis campuses are working together to tackle one of the toughest types of cancer — head and neck cancer. It is a cancer common in dogs, too. One pet that already benefited from collaborative research underway within the innovation group is profiled.
Readers will learn about false-positive mammogram results that may deter women from future screenings.
Major advancements in lung cancer detection and treatment are also found in this issue. For the first time, lung cancer is being diagnosed more often at stage 1, when it is more treatable, rather than late stages.
Find out about the only clinic of its kind in Northern California focused on people who are suspected of having cancer. Clinic doctors are committed to getting them care quickly.
Same-day, in-home urgent care is now available to cancer patients, too.
Enloe Health is the newest UC Davis Health Cancer Care Network affiliate. Cancer patients at the Chico-area hospital will now be able to access UC Davis clinical trials close to home.
This issue also highlights two young osteosarcoma patients who are thriving and getting to do everything they hoped at their age. Another teenage girl has her life back, thanks to the new life-saving stem cell transplant program.
These stories and many more can be found in the latest issue of Synthesis. Sign up to receive a free subscription to the print version of Synthesis.
Questions or comments? Contact Synthesis editor Stephanie Winn at stawinn@ucdavis.edu.
UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center
UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center is the only National Cancer Institute-designated center serving the Central Valley and inland Northern California, a region of more than 6 million people. Its specialists provide compassionate, comprehensive care for more than 100,000 adults and children every year and access to more than 200 active clinical trials at any given time. Its innovative research program engages more than 240 scientists at UC Davis who work collaboratively to advance discovery of new tools to diagnose and treat cancer. Patients have access to leading-edge care, including immunotherapy and other targeted treatments. Its Office of Community Outreach and Engagement addresses disparities in cancer outcomes across diverse populations, and the cancer center provides comprehensive education and workforce development programs for the next generation of clinicians and scientists. For more information, visit cancer.ucdavis.edu.
