The Cancer Survivors Network (CSN) is a peer support community for cancer patients, survivors, caregivers, families, and friends! CSN is a safe place to connect with others who share your interests and experiences.

Roswell or sloan kettering for stage 4 RECTAL cancer

linda7408
linda7408 CSN Member Posts: 21
in Colorectal Cancer #1
Like Care

Comments

  • Joan M
    Joan M CSN Member Posts: 409 Member
    #2
    Many on this forum go to Sloan Kettering

    Hope that is helpful. I've gone Mayo Clinic and also to MD Anderson trying to get on a trial, but so far have recieved all my treatments at the local cancer center in North Dakota.

     

    Like Care
  • Mikenh
    Mikenh CSN Member Posts: 777 Member
    #3
    Some go to a major cancer

    Some go to a major cancer center for second opinions but go to their local hospital for oncology care.

    Like Care
  • abrub
    abrub CSN Member Posts: 2,174 Member
    #4
    I go to Sloan Kettering

    And know that their colorectal group is one of the best in the world.  That said, Roswell Park has a superb reputation also.  My surgeon, Philip Paty, is known for trying to minimize the damage from rectal surgeries, to preserve function if at all possible.  Mine is appendix cancer, and I believe that if I'd had any other surgeon, I would have ended with a colostomy, as he resected my colon in 3 places, and re-attached everything perfectly, so I function fully normally.

    Like Care
  • mountainhiker
    mountainhiker CSN Member Posts: 54
    #5
    MSK

    I won't pretend to know anything about Roswell, in fact I've never heard of it, but I absolutely love MSK in NYC.  I'm stage IV colon cancer, 13 months post liver resection, and 6 months post chemo - feeling great and my scans in July were clean.

    mountainhiker

    Like Care

Discussion Boards