Here's a link to the North Carolina page of the NCI's Cancer Center list:(It looks like a Final Four List, Duke, UNC, Wake Forest )

http://www3.cancer.gov/cancercenters/centerslist.html#L20

I too would encourage treatment at one of these centers. The team approach means that all of your caregivers are on the same page, and frequently relieves you of the burden of trying to coordinate information between them. Typically, a tumor board consisting of all the participants in your care will meet to discuss and agree on a course of treatment. Before I was seen at the University of Chicago, I felt that I was trying to do the coordination. I could barely think rationally at the time, so the team approach of the Comprehensive Cancer Center saved my sanity...if not my life.

The one thing I haven't seen brought up here yet is the great job done by your dentist. Fiinding the cancer early gives you the best chance of getting it all the first time with the minimally invasive treatment. He is to be commended. If only there were more like him.

Keep doing what you're doing. Be your husband's advocate. Come here with your unanswered questions.

Good Health,

Chuck