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Malignant Phyllodes Tumor - Where is the best research being done?

Malignant Phyllodes Tumor - Where is the best research being done?

Have not met the oncologist yet, but the phyllodes tumor was found in the breast.  Complete masectomy but concerned to be sure the pathology is read correctly.  Recommendation of best research facility since it is so rare for second pathology opinion?  

Any recommended questions we should be sure to ask?
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Here are the top 20 best Cancer Centers in America - in rank order:

1.  Memorial Sloan - Kettering Cancer Center, New York
2.  University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston
3.  Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
4.  Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn.
5.  Dana - Farber Cancer Institute, Boston
6.  University of Washington Medical Center, Seattle
7.  Duke University Medical Center, Durham, N.C.
8.  University of Chicago Hospitals
9.  UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles
10.  University of California, San Francisco Medical Center
11.  H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute, Tampa
12.  University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
13.  Cleveland Clinic
14.  Stanford Hospital and Clinics, Stanford, Calif.
15.  Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
16.  Fox Chase Cancer Center, Philadelphia
17.  Barnes - Jewish Hospital/Washington University, St. Louis
18.  University of Michigan Hospitals and Health System, Ann Arbor
19.  Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
20.  Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville
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PLEASE - before you have a mastectomy, visit the following website and read this article by one of Dartmouth-Hitchcock doctors who has been working with phyllodes tumors:

http://www.cancer.dartmouth.edu/clinicaltrials/phyllodes.shtml

or:

For More Information about Phyllodes Tumors and current clinical studies:
contact Cynara Nayar at 603-650-6240  (Norris Cotton Cancer Center -Dartmouth)

Hope this is helpful to you.

Carol

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