University of California - Merced Jan 23 2025 Cancer is vicious. In 2025, it is expected to cause more than 618,000 U.S. deaths - nearly twice the combined populations of Merced and Modesto. Each year, almost half of this nation, young and old, is touched by the disease through personal diagnosis or an afflicted loved one. Jeff Yoshimi joined the 50% when his wife, Sandy, learned she had breast cancer. The blighted cells had spread to some lymph nodes. Alongside Sandy during one of many