 Patient Advocate (old timer, 2000 posts)
Joined: Nov 2002 Posts: 3,552 | Tamara, UCLA is a CCC so you have made a good choice. Are you going to Johnson or Norris? Norris appears to have a comprehensive head & neck program according to their website. City of Hope would be worth investigating as well. Loma Linda, which is So. Cal. as well offers PBT, the only west coast facility to do so and one of 5 operational in the US today. http://www.llu.edu/proton/ For future reference we try not to mention specific doctors names publicly on the site for the sake of their privacy.
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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