 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 2,606 Likes: 2 | I don't know about everywhere but in Dallas the UT Southwestern medical school oversees treatment at the VA (same docs as the Simmons Cancer Center) and in KC the VA oncologists come from the University of Kansas medical school. The VA medical center in KC was the only place that would even treat my uncle's leukemia and they even gave him a couple of years cancer free that he hadn't been expecting. I would suppose in outlying areas it would be different.
It sounds like everything is pretty tough on the whole family. Hoping for the best for all of you!
Ed
SCC Stage IV, BOT, T2N2bM0
Cisplatin/5FU x 3, 40 days radiation
Diagnosis 07/21/03 tx completed 10/08/03
Post Radiation Lower Motor Neuron Syndrome 3/08.
Cervical Spinal Stenosis 01/11
Cervical Myelitis 09/12
Thoracic Paraplegia 10/12
Dysautonomia 11/12
Hospice care 09/12-01/13.
COPD 01/14
Intermittent CHF 6/15
Feeding tube NPO 03/16
VFI 12/2016
ORN 12/2017
Cardiac Event 06/2018
Bilateral VFI 01/2021
Thoracotomy Bilobectomy 01/2022
Bilateral VFI 05/2022
Total Laryngectomy 01/2023
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