Entries Tagged as Cancer
Cancer Won’t Slow This Mom Down
Like most working mothers, Chrystina Collins is a busy woman. A registered nurse who cares for pre- and post-op patients at NorthBay Health’s Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC) in Vacaville, she’s also a wife and has […]
Read MoreDonations Lead to New Tool to Detect Cancer
This spring, a new diagnostic ultrasound device arrived at NorthBay Health that will help in the quick detection of tumors in the neck and thyroid. It came, courtesy of numerous public donations to NorthBay Health […]
Read MoreDiagnostic Experts Play Important Role in Multiple Specialties
When it comes to certain kinds of diagnostic imaging, it is said that a little incision makes a big difference. That’s because a tiny incision — made by NorthBay Health’s interventional radiology specialists — can help NorthBay […]
Read MoreComprehensive Care from our Cancer Center Team
The NorthBay Health Cancer Center, in the VacaValley Wellness Center in Vacaville, is more than just a place, it’s a coordinated program of comprehensive cancer prevention, detection, treatment, rehabilitation and support services. It is staffed […]
Read MoreCatching Cancer Early Makes All the Difference
Sylvia Cole is intimately familiar with cancer’s randomness, its pain and the suffering it can cause. She survived a breast cancer diagnosis in 2006, but lost her father to liver cancer in 2004. She has […]
Read MoreDiligent Diagnostics
“I never thought I would get cancer. I never, ever thought it was possible. It doesn’t run in my family, and I didn’t feel a lump,” says Diana Muehlhausen, 65, of Rio Vista. ABOVE: Diana […]
Read MoreFamily Grateful for Mom’s Dream of a Lifetime
ABOVE: The family of hospice patient Patsy Harpe pose for a photo at her Dream of a Lifetime party, including her daughters, Layce Little and Kelli Harpe (left to right, in white dresses) and their […]
Read MoreCancer Specialists Ready to Go to Battle for their Patients
It’s rare for a small, community-based hospital to offer all of the sophisticated medical services typically found in a big-city cancer center, but that’s exactly what is available at the NorthBay Cancer Center, according to […]
Read MoreHelping Leukemia Patient on His Journey
It was a mother’s worst nightmare: Your son has severe, flu-like symptoms and an uncontrolled nosebleed that, you learn, is the result of a life-threatening illness. You are new to the community and don’t know […]
Read MoreSeeking Cancer Connections
You inherited your eye color from your mom and your hair color from your dad. Did one of them give you an elevated risk of cancer, too? That question could now be answered through a […]
Read MoreA TrueBeam Tactic
Engineer Fascinated by SBRT Treatment When Ford Pray, 89, learned he would have to undergo stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) to treat a lung tumor, the retired engineer’s curiosity was piqued. What was this new […]
Read MoreCancer Center Spans 30 Years
In the mid-1980s, the medical staff treating cancer patients at Intercommunity Hospital believed it was time to bring radiation therapy to Fairfield. They presented the idea to hospital CEO Gary Passama and he agreed. It […]
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