Better Radiation?

LynnieRich

I go to MGH (Mass) for my treatments and surgery but it is a good hour and a half from me. I told them I did not want to do radiation there since it is so far. There is a Cancer Center near the hospital where I work and the radiologists that I work with say it is very good. It is also very close to my home and my work. But the doctors at MGH are insistent I go to a different (but much further) hospital because they know the people there and it is the best they know. I just feel like radiation is radiation... but they've made me nervous. Any thoughts on this? Is radiation form one facility to the next very different? Should I sacrifice convenience to go to the "better hospital"? Especially given that the doctors I work with seem to say the Cancer center near me is very good?

(To add: my cancer was on the left side and so they want to make sure they do the "breath hold" technique. I haven't met with the rad onc at the closer hospital but plan to ask i they do that when I do- if they say they can't/don't I will go to the further hospital).