[Schneed10]

I work for Temple University Health System in Philadelphia, in the finance office. Part of my job involves working with the Bone Marrow Transplant, Radiation Oncology, and Chemotherapy departments. Just from being around the administrators from those departments, I've come to know the cancer treatment business rather well.

I can tell you all about Philadelphia area treatment options, but from what I know, the Lombardi Cancer Center at Georgetown is indeed the best in the DC area. They've got oodles of oncologists specializing in all kinds of cancers. Here are their docs who treat breast cancer:

Minetta C Liu MD - College: Princeton, MD from Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia which is the top Medical School in our area, even above the Ivy League's University of Pennsylvania, she's a national leader in breast cancer research.

Robert Warren MD - specializes entirely in breast cancer diagnosis, and is the Co-Director of the Betty Lou Ourisman Breast Health Center. He's a medical oncologist, meaning he wouldn't perform any surgery but would be a great doc to take the patient through the entire process, and for surgical needs would refer to one of Lombardi's very good surgeons.

Jefferson E C Moulds MD MD is from Medical College of Virginia in Richmond VA, he specializes in Radiation Therapy for malignancies, he would be a good doc to see if radiation therapy is determined to be required.

What you'd do though, is just go to the Lombardi center just as you've got planned. They'll assign the appropriate physician to your sis-in-law's care. They'll determine which docs at Lombardi will be best to treat her. I just wanted to show you that Georgetown has some fantastic oncology docs, and that no matter what, she's in great hands there.

If you feel like getting in the car and heading up to Baltimore for treatment, you can't go wrong at Johns Hopkins. But I doubt that makes any sense with such a good place right there at Georgetown.

I'll be thinking about you and her, hope she gets better.