The Brain and Neurologic Cancer Program at UC Davis Cancer Center is a regional treatment center for adults and children with tumors of the brain and spinal cord.

Our highly trained, experienced neurosurgeons, oncologists, nurses and support staff have helped many hundreds of patients from throughout California, Oregon and Nevada overcome neurological cancers. Through our laboratory and clinical research programs, we continue to offer patients access to the most advanced treatments possible.

Our specialists are backed by the most advanced technologies and techniques available in neurologic oncology, including:

• Computer-generated, image-guided surgical navigation systems, enabling neurosurgeons to operate with more precision and less risk
  
  
• Stereotactic radiosurgery, a minimally invasive approach that destroys tumors painlessly using highly focused beams of radiation
  
  
• State-of-the-art linear accelerators and three-dimensional conformal treatment planning for radiation therapy
  
  
• Multidisciplinary treatment combining radiation with surgery and chemotherapy

UC Davis Cancer Center also offers patients access to a large number of pediatric and adult clinical trials of investigational treatments. For example, UC Davis physicians are evaluating drugs that may make brain tumors more susceptible to radiation therapy.

Our excellence in cancer care is reflected in our designation by the National Cancer Institute, the nation’s top cancer organization. Only 60 other cancer centers nationwide have successfully competed for this designation, a mark of the highest standards and achievements in cancer research and treatment.

Neurosurgery

James E. Boggan, M.D.
Professor of Neurological Surgery

Dongwoo John Chang, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery

J. Paul Muizelaar, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chair of Neurological Surgery

Rudolph J. Schrot, M.D.
Assistant Professor of Neurological Surgery

Diagnostic Radiology

Gary Caputo, M.D.
Professor of Radiology

Richard Latchaw, M.D.
Professor of Radiology and Chief of Neuroradiology

Interventional Radiology

John McGahan, M.D.
Professor of Radiology

Medical Oncology

Robert O'Donnell, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor of Medicine

Pediatric Brain and Neurological Cancer

Jonathan M. Ducore, M.D., M.P.H.
Associate Professor of Pediatrics
Co-Director, Hemophilia Treatment Center

Brain and Neurological Cancer Program
UC Davis Cancer Center
4501 X St.
Sacramento, CA 95817

New patient appointments: (916) 703-5210 or (800) 362-5566

Updated 12/2007.