Facts at a Glance
Clinical Care
- The only National Cancer Institute center serving California’s Central Valley and inland Northern California, a region of 6 million people
- Cares for more than 9,000 adults and children each year
- More than 150 adult and pediatric cancer clinical trials under way
- Affiliate cancer centers through the Cancer Care Network in Yuba City, Truckee and Merced, offering patients state-of-the-art cancer care close to home
- Highly trained oncology-certified nurses
- The only National Marrow Donor Program Transplant Center in the region
- Nearly 40 years of experience providing a full range of prevention, diagnosis, treatment and hospice/palliative care programs for children and adults
Research
- $134 million cancer research program with nearly 300 scientists at work on more than 400 projects
- The first major cancer center to forge a formal research partnership with a national laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Headquarters for a $1.5 million National Cancer Institute-funded project to eliminate cancer disparities in Asian Americans nationwide- Collaboration with JAX-West Laboratories to develop better research models for new therapies
- 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
