Mike - I don't wish to beat this to death, but the whole point of going to a CCC is that you get a multidisciplinary team - not a single doctor, all with different training an backgrounds, and therefore different approaches to treatment planning, and usually what works out to be a tumor board type of multi-person decision of what is going to be done. Once that has happened, I would go with what ever the GROUP thought was the best thing for me to undergo. Lastly I would say that while this is likely a good institution, that Mayo in FL is not exactly like going to the home town nationally recognized Mayo. This probably accounts for how at a "Mayo" institution you do not have a team. Great guy or not, he has one perspective and one set of training.


Brian, stage 4 oral cancer survivor. OCF Founder and Director. The first responsibility of a leader is to define reality. The last is to say thank you. In between, the leader is a servant.