Surgeon Referral

Sophie, that is what has happened with my dad with Dr. Hoffman.

I had to pull together records and fax them and then my dad was given an appointment with a surgeon. That surprised me, as I didn’t think anyone would be willing to operate on him, from what doctors said to me from our local hospital. I fully expected dad to be paired with an oncologist to start chemo instead.

http://www.fccc.edu/physicians/surgical/hoffman.html

Sophie,
Just read the posts – been missing for a few days – Butch and I just got home from UPMC. Did you maybe read my post – Butch was refused surgery at Mayo – because of mets found pre-surgery in a laporoscopy. I wrote UPMC – great Surgeon – Dr. Gamblin – he requested all records – I sent them to him. He operated on July 16th – removed right lobe of liver (8.3 centimeter tumor) 1/4 of left lobe – smaller tumor, portal vein reconstruction, and removed bad lymph nodes. We are back in Endicott – he was in the hospital almost 6 weeks – all kinds of problems, – 3 infections, heart problems, fluid in lungs, etc., BUT – he is home now. Very weak, but recovering. Must take chemo when well enough, BUT – those dratted tumors are gone. Not bad for a 66 year old guy whose immune system was weak – from chemo – going in. We are very grateful to Dr. Gamblin – going down for a follow up visit on Sept. 10, and – even though I do NOT give our hospital stay there kudos (our blog is listed on family blogs, and tells the story) , we both say we would do it again – at least he has a better chance now, we feel. I hope this helps you. Go to upmc.com – liver cancer center – find Dr. Gamblin and send him an e-mail – tell him I sent you to him! He actually said he read our site – at cc.org – a couple of times, and several other Doctors at the center were very interested in it also.

joyce

Hi Jeff, thank u so much for your response. My Mum has been getting on well since yesterday, she started drinking and eating, hope that everything would be fine.

To be honest, Ihave been searching for your information but it is very difficult for me to scan through all of your posts, so if possible, could you please summarise your progress from diagnos untill now (just shortly brief on the timing and diagnos & kind of treatment, it’s ok actually).

My proposal is, whether everyone can post and update his/her progress of diagnos and treatment on this forum, at the profile page (so they can update regularly and no one can add more thread on it) ?? If we can do so, it is very easy for anybody to get experience and information from there.

Thank you all so much.
Hai Minh

Hi Jeff,

How can I get the information of your medical record, so I can get experience from there? Or, could you pls brief something about your case from diagnos till now?

My Mum got a bowel obstruction after the resection, and had to stay 6 weeks in the hospital so far. Hope that I can get valuable information from you. Thank you so much for your kind response and help.

Hai Minh

Sophie, if you are willing to travel, we used a doctor here who was director of transplants at St. Joseph Hospital where Teddy is getting his radiation. He helped us after we got back here from having Teddy’s Whipple Surgery and saw us in June as a courtesy visit and he sent us to Dr. Kresl for the radiation and cyberknife. We think he is a god!!! Dr. James Cashman
and his phone number is 602 252-3861. We said if we ever got in to the liver problems we would definitely go to him. Oops! I just realized you wanted Mayo Clinic. Well, think about it and best of luck!!