[Lani]

Stanford and USC have brachytherapy(both), intraoperative external beam irradiation ie beams and not seeds(both), accelerated partial breast irradiation with external beams after surgery (Stanford only). As I told you USC's randomizes patients between standard external beam 7 wk treatment, brachytherapy at time of surgery and intraop with" external" beam at time of surgery. Stanford randomizes between the two types of treatment at the time of surgery (although they may have dropped brachytherapy) and accelerated partial breast (7 wks worth in 5 days by external beam after surgery)

I hear UCLA may have brachytherapy but their radiation therapists seem to be a lot less specialized, ie one Doctor treating a LOT of different kinds of cancer in a lot of parts of the body vs one doctor treating breast, one head and neck, one GI, etc like Stanford.


Perhaps your insurance will refer you up to Stanford since your doctors don't know what to do with your unusual case. They are truly world class in radiation therapy, specialize in difficult cases, have extremely high tech equipment and methods (being in Silicon valley and having the Stanford Linear Accelerator nearby doesn't hurt) and the head of their new cancer center is a radiation therapist himself. Look up their Radiation Oncology department via Google. Good luck!