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OCULAR ONCOLOGY SERVICE

Scope

UC Davis Health System cares for more children and adults with eye cancer than any other center in inland Northern California, offering the latest and most advanced medical and surgical treatments available for ocular melanoma, retinoblastoma, ocular metastasis and choroidal hemangioma.

Research

Eye cancer specialists participate in key national clinical studies with leading research institutions around the country, offering patients the latest treatment methods, often months or years before they become widely available.

Specialists

The following specialists and subspecialists in the UC Davis Department of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences and at UC Davis Cancer Center diagnose and treat eye cancers:

vitreo-retinal surgeons
corneal disease specialists
neuro-ophthalmologists
neurosurgeons
ocular pathologists
oculoplastic surgeons
pediatric ophthalmologists
pediatric oncologists
radiation oncologists
stereotactic radiosurgeons
medical oncologists
radiation physicists

Services

Proton-beam therapy for intraocular melanoma, available at only six institutions nationwide
Laser and photodynamic therapy for vascular tumors
Laser therapy, systemic chemotherapy and radiation therapy for retinoblastoma
State-of-the-art technology for diagnosing disease and monitoring therapy, including digital fluorescein angiography, fundus photography, ICG angiography, optical coherence tomography, A- and B-scan ultrasonography, 3-D ultrasound tomography and ultrabiomicroscopy

For more information about eye cancer treatment and research at UC Davis Cancer Center, please call (916) 734-6603 or visit www.ucdmc.ucdavis.edu/cancer.

UC DAVIS CANCER CENTER
4501 X Street
Sacramento, CA 95817

cancer.center@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu