UCD cancer treatments featured on PBS show | Davis Enterprise

The acclaimed national news program ?PBS NewsHour? will highlight the UC Davis Cancer Center on Friday. The show airs at 6 p.m. on KVIE, Channel 6.

Health correspondent Betty Ann Bowser will focus on two research programs that illustrate how the Cancer Center is breaking barriers to beat the disease: the comparative oncology program, in which cancer treatment for dogs is providing new insights for human cancer therapies; and a program in which patients? tumors are removed, then grown in mice to help determine the best drug treatment to use against a patient?s specific cancer.

The segment is part of an in-depth look at the ?War on Cancer,? 40 years after it was declared by President Richard Nixon. The news crew spent two days at UCD last month.

Ralph deVere White, Cancer Center director and renowned urologist,?and David Gandara, a lung cancer specialist and special adviser for experimental therapeutics at the Cancer Center, were interviewed, as well as Jane Coyne, a lung cancer patient of Gandara?s.

Coyne?s tumor has been engrafted in a mouse that is housed at JAX West, a Cancer Center research partner. Filming also took place at the UCD School of Veterinary Medicine?s Center for Companion Animal Health.

For more information about ?PBS NewsHour,? visit www.pbs.org/newshour.

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