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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
- Among the nation’s largest cancer clinical trials programs, with 150 adult clinical trials and 50 pediatric clinical trials under way at any given time
- The region's only Marrow Donor Transplant Program Center, ensuring patients immediate access to potential donors from around the world
- The only facility in the Sacramento region honored by the Oncology Certification Corporation for its use of highly trained oncology-certified nurses
- Affiliate cancer centers in Marysville and Merced and an infusion center in Roseville, offering patients in these communities state-of-the-art cancer treatment and access to clinical trials closer to home
- A 35-year history of providing a full range of prevention, diagnosis, treatment and hospice/palliative care programs for children and adults
Research
- $75.6 million cancer research program with 286 scientists at work on hundreds of research projects
- The first major cancer center to forge a formal research partnership with a national laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, to harness defense technologies in the fight against cancer
- Headquarters for a $5.5 million National Cancer Institute-funded project to eliminate cancer disparities in Asian Americans nationwide
- Recent research highlights: development of a breast CT that promises to detect breast cancer earlier than mammography; development of investigational new agents for leukemia, prostate and neurologic cancers; development of a potential test for early detection of ovarian cancer; development of prototype biophotonics technologies for rapid cancer diagnosis
last updated 2/07