Synthesis, a UC Davis Cancer Center Publication

N E W S

Home

To our readers

Features

Benefactors

News


	Small-animal imaging yields cancer clues
	Too many colonoscopies
	"Big C" ad campaign
	Ultrasound for cancer treatment?
	On the same treatment, Japanese patients live longer
	Breast cancer prevention study seeks volunteers
	Care closer to home
	National Cancer Survivors Day walk

Contact

Past issues

NEWS IN BRIEF

Small-animal imaging yields cancer clues
Positron emission tomography or PET imaging is widely used to detect and follow cancer in human patients. Now UC Davis researchers have come up with a micro-PET machine that can do the same in animals as small as a mouse ...
Read More...

Too many colonoscopies
Doctors may be recommending too many follow-up colonoscopies for patients who have had colon polyps removed, according to recent research led by UC Davis gastroenterologist Pauline Mysliwiec ...
Read More...

"Big C" ad campaign
Ultrasound scans might be most familiar for getting a peek at a developing fetus, but the technology could also be used to treat cancer ...
Read More...

Ultrasound for cancer treatment?
Ultrasound scans might be most familiar for getting a peek at a developing fetus, but the technology could also be used to treat cancer ...
Read More...

On the same treatment, Japanese patients live longer
A chemotherapy regimen commonly used to treat non-small cell lung cancer is both more effective and more toxic in Japanese patients than in American patients, researchers reported at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncologists in New Orleans this spring ...
Read More...

Breast cancer prevention study seeks volunteers
Healthy, post-menopausal women at high risk for breast cancer may be eligible to participate in a major new international study to determine whether the drug exemestane can prevent the disease. UC Davis Medical Center is the first center in the United States chosen to participate in the study, funded by the Canadian National Cancer Institute ...
Read More...

Care closer to home
Cancer patients in Roseville, the Central Valley, and Yuba-Sutter counties may be able to get some or all of their care closer to home. Comprehensive treatment, overseen by specialists from UC Davis Cancer Center, is now available at Mercy Cancer Center in Merced ...
Read More...

National Cancer Survivors Day walk
From a climbing wall to a one-mile survivors' walk, UC Davis Cancer Center celebrated National Cancer Survivors Day on June 6 with activities that drew hundreds of cancer survivors and their supporters to the Richard and Annette Bloch Cancer Survivors Park on the Medical Center campus ...
Read More...

UC DAVIS CANCER CENTER
4501 X Street
Sacramento, CA 95817

cancer.center@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu