#39030 08-20-2005 10:55 AM | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 5 Member | OP Member Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 5 | Just found that daughter-in-law has had surgery and found that cancer might be invasive. Someone suggested the Roswell Cancer Clinic in Buffalo. Is there a place that we should consider beside Roswell?
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#39031 08-20-2005 12:16 PM | Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 624 "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) | "Above & Beyond" Member (500+ posts) Joined: Jul 2005 Posts: 624 | According to US News and World Report, Memorial Sloan-Kettering in NYC is #! comprehensive cancer center in USA -- certainly they have a large HNC program. You might consider a consult there, we did and got a lot of good advice.
Gail
CG to husband Barry, dx. 7/21/05, age 66, SCC rgt. tonsil, BOT, 2 nodes (stg. IV), HPV+, tonsillectomy, 7x carboplatin, 35x tomoTherapy IMRT w/ Ethyol @ Johns Hopkins, thru treatment 9/28/05, HPV vaccine trial 12/06-present. Looking good!
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#39033 08-21-2005 11:26 AM | Joined: May 2005 Posts: 497 "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts) | "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts) Joined: May 2005 Posts: 497 | Hope this helps a bit: Top 10 Cancer Centers of United States
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Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York *
University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas *
Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, Maryland *
Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. *
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Mass *
Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C. *
Stanford University Hospital, Stanford, Calif. *
University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle, Wash. *
University of Chicago Hospitals, Chicago, Illi. *
UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles, Calif. *
Roswell Park Cancer Institute, Buffalo, New York
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#39034 08-22-2005 03:22 AM | Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 5 Member | OP Member Joined: Aug 2005 Posts: 5 | Thanks Barb, I found that yesterday. My daughter-in-law's father is a retired dentist from Rochester. I think he suggested Roswell because of "connections". My feeling is that why not just go to #1 (Sloan-Kettering). Duke University has been trating her for about five years without success in halting the tumors. The last one is thought to be invasive and they now want to cut deeper. My wife and I are in the "fast lane" of learning. | | |
#39035 08-22-2005 10:00 AM | Joined: May 2005 Posts: 497 "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts) | "Above & Beyond" Member (300+ posts) Joined: May 2005 Posts: 497 | I hope things work out well for her where ever she ends up getting treatment. I went to a regular place and had standard treatment by a wopnderful doctor and a wonderful team. I am going to be around a long number of years though and I hope she is as well. My thoughts will be with her and your family as well.
Blessings, Barb~
[i]"The artist, a traveler on this earth, leaves behind imperishable traces of his being." -Fran
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