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Best Cancer Hospitals

We wish we could give you the best cancer hospitals that treat colon cancer, but the hospital ranking is for all cancers. There is no way to make the list specifically for colon cancer, but here is a list of the top 10 hospitals in 2008* for all cancer treatments.

Top 10 Hospitals in 2008

  1. University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center - Houston, TX
  2. Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center - New York, NY
  3. Johns Hopkins Hospital - Baltimore, MD
  4. Mayo Clinic - Rochester, MN
  5. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute - Boston, MA
  6. University of Washington Medical Center - Seattle, WA
  7. Massachusetts General Hospital - Boston, MA
  8. University of California, San Francisco Medical Center - San Francisco, CA
  9. Stanford Hospital and Clinics - Palo Alto, CA
  10. Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center - Los Angeles, CA

* ranking by US News and World Report

If you live near any of these best cancer hospitals, you really want to find a doctor who works at one of them or has trained there. Even if you can't get to a doctor at one of these hospitals, there are many other doctors who have a great deal of experience or have trained in these hospitals. And that is what you want - a doctor with a lot of experience, especially with your medical situation.

Find a doctor who has experience with your type of cancer

Patients have better results when their doctor has more patients with their type of medical problem. It seems like common sense, but many patients are afraid to ask their doctor about his or her experience in treating exactly their medical problem. Don't be afraid to ask. The good doctors will tell you right away and you probably don't want to have a doctor who doesn't have a lot of experience treating your problem.

Get a Second Opinion

If you can't get to one of the 10 best cancer hospitals, then it is a good idea to get a second opinion from a doctor at one of these hospitals. That is because the medical staff at these hospitals learn the latest techniques, and you have a better chance of getting the very latest medical advances.

We may be able to help you find a very experienced doctor with your particular problem. You can click here to email to us. We will write back to you with the best suggestions we have for a very experienced treatment group near you.

Written by Steve Goldner - 2/24/09

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