Welcome to the UC Davis Department of Radiation Oncology. Located in the UC Davis Cancer Center, a National Cancer Institute-designated Cancer Center, our radiation oncology clinic offers the highest quality comprehensive patient care. Our faculty and staff perform extensive basic and clinical cancer research and teaching, and provide active community education programs.

The primary goal of the department is to provide innovative cancer therapy with optimal care, maximizing longevity with the highest possible quality of life. We are equipped to manage and treat most cancer diagnoses and appropriate benign diseases. With an expanding population in Northern California, the department  is in a unique position to conduct clinical trials — especially translational, innovative trials — by taking advantage of the following strengths:

• A team of physicians, physicists, dosimetrists, nurses, radiation therapists and other professionals that delivers cutting-edge radiation treatment, including therapies such as intensity modulated radiotherapy (IMRT), stereotactic radiotherapy and helical tomotherapy
• State-of-the-art technology that includes a Leskell Gamma Knife, a high dose rate brachytherapy unit,  two new linear accelerators, an Elekta Synergy, an Elekta Synergy S and a Hi-Art Tomotherapy system, the first in Northern California
• Full membership in the Radiation Therapy Oncology Group
• A full complement of board certified oncology faculty, two of whom run laboratory research programs and possess peer-reviewed grant funding
• An active physics program that includes joint efforts with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 
• Fellowship programs in physics and radiation oncology
• A residency program that is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education 
• A radiobiology unit dynamically involved in teaching, research and clinical work
• An active collaboration with the Veterans Affairs Northern California Health Care System
• Educational training programs for medical students and radiation therapists