Gary, your point is well taken, and don't think we didn't labor over our decision not to go to Stanford...in the end we felt we were getting an almost identical regime with a doctor we actually like and that is less than a mile from our home. Our doctor is following a plan used by a Dr. for this type of cancer at Harvard Medical and we feel comfortable with both the plan and our chemo doc...he is known for being aggressive in his treatments, but he is also extremely user-friendly and human in his approach.
In other news, my husband's surgery to insert the G-tube has not been a complete success. He does not seem to be moving things though, and after a couple of xrays of the abdomen, the surgeon believes he has a partial intestinal blockage that appears to be "barrium from a previous medical test"--we are seeing the surgeon in an hour...wish us luck.

jan b