Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)    Joined:  Nov 2002  Posts: 3,552  |    Your chances of survival will be much improved at a CCC - well worth the extra travel time.  Many CCC's understand this as well and have housing avialable for patients and their families. 
  I was fortunate that I only had to travel 60 miles/day during treatment. Eight years later I am still here to tell about it.        
Gary Allsebrook *********************************** Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2 Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy) ________________________________________________________ "You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes" (James 4:14 NIV)
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