Flo,
I had been thinking of you and am glad your wife came through surgery well. I know how through it is to have a loved one with cancer.
It is critical that you go to a highly regarded cancer center, preferably one with a medical school. It would be worth it to try and go to Dana Farber Cancer Center directly for an appointment, assuming your wife is well enough to travel. It is far better to get direct involvement at Dana Farber for the initial assessment of the tumor biopsies, as well as to chart a course of than to go someplace affiliated with it, because such affiliations can be quite tenuous.
I would also point out that all cancer centers are not equal, so it is best to find out which centers have the most expertise in the type of cancer your wife has. It may well be Dana Farber is the place to go. Once the treatment and follow-up proceedures are in place, your more local cancer Center may be suitable to administer and monitor. However, you should still make sure to keep close tabs on how well they are keeping in contact with Dana Farber, or do so directly by an occasional email to the oncologist.
If you wish to contact me privately, use my email vinmantoo@yahoo.com
Vinny
P.S. Keep in mind that there is now a drug (Nexavar) that is proven effective in liver cancer, if it comes to chemotherapy. There are also very low invasive treatments (ablations) that can be used for localized liver tumors, and the person goes home that same day, as I know very well from my dad's liver cancer treatments.
AI
