Top cancer centers choose you, you don't choose them. It's a matter of success or not that effects their reputation. I was already treated at Mt. Sinai, and with a community MO, RO, had mutiple recurrences, surgeries, and chemo, so my case is complicated, and was risky. Most doctors don't like treating someone that had work done elsewhere, and will ask how come you came here, and they really don't have to treat you. My decision to go elsewhere was the dosage of radiation, no surgery, and was looking at brachytherapy and other options due to the fact I had positive margins, PNI, LVI from my surgery in June 2012 to remove cancer that was free or roaming cancer, and had surgery a month before that was for cancer too, so I knew, and so did the doctors that it would come back, and it did.

I never met Dr. Lee, and don't dislike them, I just didn't like MSK's process. Dr. Lee didn't want to see me after I faxed all my paperwork, which cost me around $400, and running around for a month, and her receptionist or scheduler, forget his name, kept jerking me around saying we need this, and then that when I called about the constant delays, and then consulted with Dr.. Harrison in betwern. After I obtained every single document for the past three years, cd, pathology slides, and sbout 1,000 pages of medical papers, I'm told told I didn't have to bother coming in for a consult and to go with one of the other hospitals I consulted with. Dr. Harrison said, I know you have been shopping around lol, and you will not get a better offer than I'm giving you, which was true.

Anyway, I'm happy, and happy with the outcome, and all are great places.