Hi Michael --

Good luck at Sloan, Dr. Pfister is great -- they are very organized there as well re coordinated care. Sloan is currently #1 (by a hair) over Anderson for cancer, Hopkins still #1 by a lot on Otolarynology, #3 on cancer.

I think Hopkins is the only one of these three centers with tomo on-line -- I will be getting that myself - but not sure.

You will find out that Sloan does not routinely do neck dissections, and then only post-treatment. It is quite interesting (and a bit unsettling) that there remains so much difference of opinion amongst the top people as to the best approach. As someone told me recently, treatment for HNC is as much a art as a science...

Good luck, Barry Cooper