Hi Brian,

Much thanks for all of that info. Also, I did not know UCSF's HNC center is a good one. For some reason, I thought their CCC center was just recently designated (1999). Although, Stanford's CCC designation is fairly recent too. I will have to give UCSF a second thought.

By the way, I know this may be personal, and don't respond if you don't want to, but were your out-of-pocket total costs for treatment at MD Anderson above the six figure mark?

Thanks again for the response.


Been misdiagnosed several times since Nov. 2012.
Sep/9/2013 - Recently diagnosed with SCC in right cervical node, with possible multiple metastatic nodes.
Trying to get into Stanford CC.