[graciegirl]

I fortunately haven't had the need for radiation here in TV. I don't know how they do it here but up north you usually go to an oncologist who is your primary person guiding you through treatment. He/she has a radiation center and/or a radiologist who he likes and trusts and sends you there. It just isn't getting under the machine and taking the rays. PRECISE measurements have to be taken and they are marked on your body and the position of your body is changed during the process.The radiation was given five or six days a week for a total of 30 days The burn that eventually happens has to be addressed for pain and for treatment. It isn't simple.

When I read this my first thought is that the people who own the Boissenault business feel threatened by the Moffitt center. My second thought was that I have never seen this kind of advertising (?) by a medical facility.I am just guessing that Boissonault is a radiation treatment facilty only. (I don't know) Please correct me if I am wrong. Both the Moffitt and this Boissenault are accredited. The Boissenaullt has five locations, Ocala, here...and three other places. The Moffitt center is more than a radiation facility. It has the expertise of several oncologists I would guess, since it is pretty big facility in Tampa. Years ago my stepmother went there for her cancer.

The oncology associates who treated my cancer in Cincinnati had ...maybe 40 oncologists on staff. I still considered Sloan Kettering or Mayo...just because it was MY cancer. You are pretty scared at the time of diagnosis.

If I had a choice here...right now..I would go to Tampa to Moffitt or to Shands up in Gainesville because they are large teaching hospitals. Just simply because I don't know anyone who has been treated here, or anything much about what is available, not because I don't think they have good doctors and treatment here in TV.

I don't know why they want to use their own radiologists and equipment...

Maybe it is because the Morses want to show their power. I thought I would say it before someone else does. Or maybe because a satillite of the Moffitt wants to have all of the treatments under one roof.........I don't know. I am not a doctor. Just a grateful patient.