NEWS IN BRIEF

Cancer Center receives grant to boost clinical trials
Hoping to speed new cancer treatments to patients, the National Institutes of Health and five major drug makers in July announced $6 million in grants to six cancer centers. The grants seek to improve patient participation in early clinical trials, the studies that...
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UC Davis oncologist appointed to national cancer organization
David Gandara, professor of medicine at the UC Davis School of Medicine and director of clinical research at the UC Davis Cancer Center, has been elected secretary/treasurer and appointed to the board of directors of the American Society for Clinical Oncology...
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Excellence in end-of-life care
UC Davis Medical Center was honored in August for its West Coast Center for Palliative Education and Research, a program that improves the care of patients near the end of life or with life-threatening conditions. The medical center received the American Hospital...
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Holiday card project honors late patient
Jacqueline Louise LeCouteur, a postgraduate researcher at the UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine, died April 27 after a long battle with breast cancer. LeCouteur studied brain tumors in the laboratory of her husband, Richard LeCouteur, a professor of surgical and...
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Oncology nurse honored
Mary Tegan, an oncology nurse specialist at UC Davis Medical Center, was honored in May with a DAISY Award for Extraordinary Nurses. The award, established and directed by patients and their families through the DAISY Foundation, recognizes the compassionate care and...
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New noninvasive surgery for the brain
The UC Davis Medical Center Stereotactic Radiosurgery Program has acquired a new state-of-the-art gamma knife that uses radiation to perform brain surgery without a scalpel. With the addition of the gamma knife, UC Davis becomes the only institution in the...
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