 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Jan,
IMHO, if I had the opportunity to go the Stanford for cancer treatment, I would have as they are one of the best in Northern California. As it was, we drove 60 miles a day for radiation treatment at UCSF, also one of the top regional cancer treatment centers (ranked 7th in US). It's about the standard of care you will receive, and the expertise of the doctors. Would you trust your life to anything less?Teaching/research hospitals tend to have well experienced doctors/professors who basically develop the treatment protocols that all the others follow and as such, will have the latest, most successful treatment regimes. They also tend to be very proud of their positive outcome statistics.
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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