It is your life, your doctors do not have to endure what you have endured, even if they are empathetic. They certainly should be used to having patients want second opinions.
When I was at MD Anderson (I live 10 hours away from them so I got an apartment & lived down there for two months or so) there were people there from Atlanta seeing doctors. At one of my check-ups, there was a man from Atlanta who was seeking help for an oral cancer 17 years after his last one. I think they were in slightly different locations on that one. He said he never thought he'd be here but had listened to talks by MD Anderson doctors in Atlanta speaking on oral cancer over the years. So I don't know how far away you are from Houston.
There is at least one other member of this forum who is from Atlanta but had her care at MDA.
In Florida the one I have heard good things about is Moffitt in Tampa.
I did not think you had radiation because I did not see it in your signature. Before someone cut on me some more I would get another opinion.
Best,
Anne
SCC tongue 9/2010, excised w/clear margins:8 X 4 mm, 1 mm deep
Neck Met, 10/2010, 1 cm lymph node; 12/21/'10: Neck Diss 30 nodes, 29 clear, micro ECE node, part tongue gloss, no residual scc
IMRT & 6 cisplatin 1/20/11-2/28/11 at MDA
GIST tumor sarcoma, removed 9/2011, no chemo needed
Clear on both counts as of Fall, 2021
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