 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | City of Hope is a CCC amd certified as such by the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) as one of its 17 or so member institutions. CCC's will always be our first recommendation for treatement. I would start immediately start calling these hospitals and see what they will accept. Institutions that receive public funding (UCLA) and federal grants typically have to be a little more flexible in their admission criteria.
Please - head Brians advice about your reasoning - it could get you dead. This is not like a flu vaccination - as has been previously mentioned, the head & neck is one of the most complex areas in the body. Not to scare you but there is a reason why out of 30,000 new cases each year there are 9,000 deaths. Get the BEST medical care you can - the life you save may be your own.
USC does, by the way, accept MediCal and Medicare.
Gary Allsebrook
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Dx 11/22/02, SCC, 6 x 3 cm Polypoid tumor, rt tonsil, Stage III/IVA, T3N0M0 G1/2
Tx 1/28/03 - 3/19/03, Cisplatin ct x2, IMRT, bilateral, with boost, x35(69.96Gy)
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