I'm not sure why we are having this discussion. Everything being said is a forgone conclusion. Go to the best place you can based on insurance, HMO and personal ability.

All things in the US are not equal, and some do not meet and treat to standards. In all things there is a bell curve, some great, some horrible, and the bulk in the middle. As to saying that any cancer is a run of the mill thing, I personally think that is a mistake. No one knows enough about it all when they get diagnosed to make that decision. No one knows if in their particular case something catastrophic is going to change in the middle of treatment. No one knows if they are someone that is going to be unresponsive to conventional established treatments and need something outside the box that may only be available in a clinical trial center. There are a lot of "no one knows" when you are a non medical person who just got a cancer diagnosis.

I don't think anyone here has beliefs that are outside all this until I read that someone thought that a CCC might "over treat a patient" That comment needed correction. More than that we all agree. We are all locked into certain choices given our services that we can afford, or systems we are in. That is the reality of the situation and in the US that is not going to change.

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.