Pls Recommend Leading IDC Oncologists

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friendhelper
friendhelper Member Posts: 6
edited June 2014 in IDC (Invasive Ductal Carcinoma)

Due to recurrence after 4 years, this time stage IV, we are looking for treatment in a leading IDC center in the United States, although we don't live in the US.

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  • TammyLou
    TammyLou Member Posts: 740
    edited December 2010

    There are top hospitals in the US that would probably fall into this category.

    I can recommend my OWN oncologist.  He is Doctor Andres Torres-Forrero.  His area of research is lymphoma.  However, he "likes" to treat breast cancer patients.

    MD Anderson is probably the best known US hospital, but I have a particular fondness for UAB (University of Alabama at Birmingham)...they have the technologies / scanning, etc. and it is a research center so you have access to study drugs, etc.

    I am particularly impressed with this doctor because he is very kind.  (My doc for 6+ years.)

    One time I was asking him a (serious) HARD question...he said, "Tammy N., I normally do whatever the patient wants."

    I have observed him for a number of years, and I have found this to be true.  ^

    tl

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  • TammyLou
    TammyLou Member Posts: 740
    edited December 2010

    The Kirklin Clinic

    2000 6th Avenue South

    Birmingham, AL  35233

    205-934-9999   or 1-800-UAB-8816

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  • lago
    lago Member Posts: 17,186
    edited August 2013

    Top hospitals in the US for cancer:
    http://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/rankings/cancer?page=1

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    *Castle Connolly Medical Ltd.
    America's Trusted Source for Identifying Top Doctors

    http://www.castleconnolly.com/
    or
    http://www.castleconnolly.com/doctors/index.cfm

    *If your physician isn't listed here it doesn't mean they aren't great. This is just a guide. Physicians do not pay to be on this list. I believe other physicians must rate these physicians highly in order to get on this list.

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    My onc, PS and BS happen to be on this list. Didn't even know that when I chose them. I am being treated at the #43 (cancer) hospital in the US. My city also has the #15 and # 27. All three are excellent but I chose my doctors not hospitals. My doctors are not as famous (don't publish quite as much I guess) as the others so I think that's why the hospital rating isn't quite as high.

    Pick you doctor but also pay attention to the hospital too. #43 in the nation still isn't shabby. ;-)

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