Northern California PET Imaging Center

11/12/2022

Our small but mighty team representing at the Zero Prostate Cancer walk!!

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11/02/2022

November is lung cancer awareness month. In its 30 year history, Northern California PET continues to support patients being diagnosed, staged or being treated for lung cancer.
Early detection is key! Talk with your physician if you or a family member is at risk!!

10/04/2021

Our small but mighty team “killed it” riding in the Sacramento Century, raising over $100,000 for the Sacramneto Children’s Crisis Nursery!!! Whoohoo!

The Area’s Most Renowned Imaging Center Northern California PET Imaging Center (NCPIC) was established in 1992 as a not-for-profit community benefit organization. The organization was the first freestanding outpatient PET center in the nation, with the first whole-body PET scanner, and was designe...

12/30/2020

Our team did a great job getting the news out for our new breast cancer imaging service!

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KTXL) — An imaging center in Sacramento is one of the first places in the nation to offer a new technology that can better detect breast cancer. Cerianna has only been on the ma…

12/15/2020

We can’t celebrate the way we usually do in the photo below....but the sentiment is still the same! Thanks for your trust in us, our patients are so precious! Happy 2020 Holidays!

12/11/2020

NCPIC is proud to offer cERianna, the first FDA approved PET imaging agent specifically for recurrent or metastatic breast cancer! In fact, we performed the first exam in the nation, outside of the research clinical setting. Most of all, we are excited on what this means for our patients and the opportunities it will create for them during their treatment process. Please contact us if you have any questions. 😊

10/30/2020

W are brewing up great things here at NCPIC!!!!
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!

11/23/2019

Cancer is a metabolic process and PET is a metabolic imaging technique.

11/01/2019

Another great Halloween with the amazing team at Northern California PET!!!

05/22/2019

https://www.ted.com/talks/pedro_brugarolas_why_do_hospitals_have_particle_accelerators

Great Talk about what we do!! Thanks TED!!

Is there a way to detect diseases like cancer and Alzheimer's before they advance too far? Doctors are using injected radioactive drugs that circulate through the body and act as a beacon for PET scanners. These diagnostic tools can detect the spread of diseases before they can be spotted with other...

04/10/2019

https://www.testicularcancerawarenessfoundation.org/

April is Testicular Cancer Awareness month.
Testicular cancer is on the rise and can affect any male from infancy to the elderly. An estimated 9,310 will be diagnosed in 2018. The highest rate of diagnoses are males between the ages of 15 and 44. Largely due to the lack of awareness & early detection it is estimated 400 deaths will occur in 2018. That's 400 too many. Statistics can be found on cancer.gov.