The three winners of this week's Daybreak contest are Jim Apriletti, Fernand McGinnis and Dianne Leiker. They said the mystery photo was of the Healing Garden at the Cancer Center and they were right.

If you lost out on winning a Daybreak mug, try again on Monday for another chance. In the meantime, here's some history:

The photo was taken in the Healing Garden at the Cancer Center outpatient building at UCSF/Mount Zion, part of UCSF Stanford Health Care. Located at 2356 Sutter Street, the garden was conceived by Ann Chamberlain, a breast cancer survivor and San Francisco artist. While undergoing treatment for breast cancer at the Cancer Center, Chamberlain kept noticing the unused courtyard beyond the glass walls in the lobby and thought it could be a "place for a garden that included images and stories of patients and staff."

With the support of her physicians, Laura Esserman and Debu Tripathy, and a grant from the Creative Work Fund, the transformation from empty courtyard to healing garden began in the summer of 1995. Chamberlain has said that she envisions the garden as a process as well as a place and one which balances the power of modern medical science with the affective, human side of health care.

The outpatient Cancer Center building is 48,000 square feet and houses multi-specialty teams, including surgical, radiation and medical specialists, organized around specific types of cancer. The adjacent four-story Cancer Center research building was opened in 1997 and serves as an umbrella for 250 scientists throughout UCSF. Under the direction of Frank McCormick, director of the Cancer Center, UCSF is seeking to become the first cancer center in Northern California to be designated as a comprehensive cancer center by the National Cancer Institute.

This February, the University of California Board of Regents approved financing for the construction of a long-awaited clinical cancer center building at the corner of Sutter and Divisadero streets. The five-story, 88,000-square-foot building will house clinical cancer programs of UCSF/Mount Zion Medical Center. The new facility will include a state-of-the-art radiation therapy center, a patient-oriented breast care center, mammography, chemotherapy and doctors' offices. Ground-breaking for the new building will take place by June 1 and construction should be completed by the end of 1999. Click here to read the full press release on the Regents' decision.

Links to previous contest answers:

• Three "Schooled" in Campus Sites

• Executive Park Eludes Many

• Mission Center Building Is Answer to Contest #5

• The Sculpture Sits in Saunders Court

• Laurel Heights It Is

• Does SFGH Ring a Bell?

• Two Winners of Daybreak Contest

1st appeared 3/27/98

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