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I hope so too. Sadly, new innovations in cancer treatment don't reach everywhere at the same time — no matter what country you live in (I'm Canadian), the difference between the treatment options they offer you at a community hospital and what they might offer you at at a major Cancer Centre (Canada) or Center of Excellence (U.S.) can be dramatic — unfairly so in my opinion, because people should be offered the same quality of care no matter where they live or what kind of insurance they have.
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That's really sad, I'm originally from Denmark and I know some of THAT system too, there's no ideal system right now, in the US doctors are CUT happy and a cancer patient is a mio. dollar patient, where in DK (Europe?) they are very cautious and won't do stuff because it costs the state too much, often people have to go to other countries for treatment.
We're in NC and will go to UNC (University of NC.... it has a med school attached to it) plus Duke is close to it, so we could go there too, don't know about insurance stuff and all that, but we'll do it one step at a time.