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. Since opening its doors in 2000, Mercy Cancer Center has offered state-of-the-art radiation oncology services provided by UC Davis Cancer Center physicians. In August the center also began offering chemotherapy and other hematology and oncology services. The hematology and oncology service is staffed by UC Davis faculty physicians.

With the recruitment of a new, full-time cancer specialist, the UC Davis Cancer Center Roseville Clinic has started offering patients access to a wide range of cancer clinical trials. That's in addition to the comprehensive hematology and oncology services already offered at the Roseville site.

With Fremont-Rideout Hospital, UC Davis Cancer Center also operates the Fremont-Rideout Cancer Center in Marysville, which offers comprehensive cancer care and access to clinical trials for the Yuba-Sutter area.