 Patient Advocate (1000+ posts)
Joined: Jan 2013 Posts: 1,291 Likes: 1 | Welcome Roger.
Sounds like you are up and running and gobbling up the knowledge to be an informed patient. You have chosen excellent facilities so you are in great hands. You have many great places without having to travel very far. Standford is just over the hill as is UCSF a few miles more. A short hop to LA gets you UCLA.
Proton is also available in socal. In fact the first facility offering it is in Loma Linda (something like that).
My advise is to keep reading up and be aware of the various options. It sounds like you may have seen the NCCN Standard of Care document. That is what the majority of doctors follow unless there are special circumstances.
Remember the collective professional experience at tumor board is surely 100+ years so the very best any of us can expect is to barely be able to understand the most basic principles of cancer diagnosis and treatment.
Ask your questions but do your very best to absorb what is being said and recommended. They are the experts and select and recommend different treatments based on your unique situation.
Good luck
Don Male, 57 - Great health except C Dec '12 DX: BOT SCC T2N2bMx, Stage 4a, HPV+, multiple nodes 1 tooth out Jan '13 2nd tooth out Tumor Board -induction TPF (3 cycles), seq CRT 4-6/2013 CRT 70gr 2x35, weekly carbo150 ended 5/29,6/4 All the details, join at http://beatdown.cognacom.com | 
