Robert's Sarcoma

Hello and thanks for reading :)

I just found out my brother has pleural Sarcoma (type unknown still, waiting for the pathologist's report still). We are looking for  advice in general, as well as input on treatment centers and facilities, especially MD Anderson and Cancer Center of America. Any help is much appreciated, thanks in advance!

Roberts Friends

On 2/19/2009 therobertteam wrote:

Hello and thanks for reading :)

 

I just found out my brother has pleural Sarcoma (type unknown still, waiting for the pathologist's report still). We are looking for  advice in general, as well as input on treatment centers and facilities, especially MD Anderson and Cancer Center of America. Any help is much appreciated, thanks in advance!

 

Roberts Friends

On 2/19/2009 therobertteam wrote:

Hello and thanks for reading :)

 

I just found out my brother has pleural Sarcoma (type unknown still, waiting for the pathologist's report still). We are looking for  advice in general, as well as input on treatment centers and facilities, especially MD Anderson and Cancer Center of America. Any help is much appreciated, thanks in advance!

 

Roberts Friends

Good afternoon.  My wife was diagnosed with Gliosarcoma on 2/1 and underwent resection on 2/3.  Although the cancers are of a different type we are being seen at MD Anderson in Orlando.  I can tell you that MD is a top notch cancer treatment and research group.  They bring resources from each of there centers together on a regular basis to consult with each other on thier cases.  My moher-in-law went through lung cancer twice with them and came through it very well.

Hi Robert

I have been a member of this board for a couple of years and now myself a cancer survivor but of an entirely different type of cancer - oralpharyngeal - cancer of the tonsil.  I often come onto the board to help others as some were here for me throughout my treatment.  I can not offer any advice on sarcoma because I am now looking for any information on it myself.  My brother was diagnosed with firbrous sarcoma shortly after my treatment ended.  He underwent radiation in St. Louis.  That was a year ago.  In a recent checkup, it came to light that he has a tumor in his lung behind his heart - something they failed to tell him had been spotted before.  It has grown a slight bit and they tell him they will keep an eye on it.  This was disturbing but comforting in a crazy way.

I can tell you that the Cancer Treatment Center is a phenomenal hospital.  I was treated there and was extremely happy with the treatment and with the way I was treated.  As the other party said about MD Anderson, they pull their resources from all of their other centers throughout the U.S. to address all cancers. One gentleman that had been cancer free for 4 yrs. 10 mo was told by his former medical facility that his pancreatic cancer had not only resurfaced but had spread.  He was told he likely wouldm't see Christmas - and that was early 2007.  He went to CTCA and just celebrated his second Christmas with his family in 2008.  

In my opinion, the very best part of CTCA is their treatment of patients as if they were family.  The gentleman who founded CTCA lost his own mother to cancer.  He felt the family was not kept abreast like they should have been - that patients deserved better treatment while facing the big C.  He understood that every patient deserved not only the best medical treatment possible but the best emotional support as well.  From the fist day I set foot in the hospital, I felt surrounded by love and concern.  Many of the nurses and a large number of the doctors are cancer survivors so they can readily tell you "I know what you are going through" because they do know.  One particular of their support system is this message board.  I was on it for two months before I even found out that this board is funded by the Cancer Treatment Center of America because they do not announce it.  Their concern is for the well-being of the patients.