 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | City of Hope is a comprehensive cancer center - one of only 3 in California the other 2 are Stanford and UCSF. http://www.nccn.org/ Loma Linda, which is in So.Cal., offers PBT which might be a consideration also. http://www.llu.edu/proton/ My personal feeling is I wouldn't go anywhere but a comprehensive cancer center (I went to UCSF myself), I might make an exception for Loma Linda because of the uniqueness and possibilities of PBT.
Gary Allsebrook
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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)
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