Harley A. Haynes, MD, is Emeritus Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, and a member of the Department of Dermatology at Massachusetts General Brigham and Womens Hospital and the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. Dr. Haynes has received numerous awards for his outstanding leadership, among them the Daniel D. Federman Outstanding Clinical Educator Award in 2000. The Dermatology Foundation recognized him with their Lifetime Career Educator Award in 2004. Extensively published, Dr. Haynes also influenced the training of dermatology residents for fifty years through his bedside teaching and many contributions to national educational committees and his significant number of teaching materials.
Dr. Haynes was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2013.
Richard M. Miles has written for numerous publications including The Birmingham Post-Herald, Newsweek magazine, and The Atlanta Constitution. Miles has received numerous awards for his writing and journalistic design work, including two Apex Awards for Publications Excellence, Golden and Silver Flame Awards, and a Gold Mercury International Award, among others. Miles lives in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina.
Mr. Miles was diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2002.
PROSTATE CANCER WEBSITES
Below are numerous potentially useful prostate cancer websites. This is not intended to be an exhaustive list, but we think these sites will be useful for prostate cancer patients and those close to them.
You may have to search prostate cancer at some of these sites.
- American Cancer Society: https://www.cancer.org
- Cleveland Clinic: https://my.clevelandclinic.org
- Cornell University Hospital: https://weill.cornell.edu
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute: http://www.dfbwcc.org
- Healing Well: https://www.healingwell.com/prostatecancer/
- Early Prostate Cancer: http://www.medicinenet.com/
- His Prostate Cancer: http://www.hisprostatecancer.com
- Johns Hopkins University Hospital: https://www.jhu.edu
- Know Your Prostate Plan: https://www.knowyourprostateplan.com/
- Massachusetts General Hospital: https://www.massgeneral.org
- Massachusetts General-Brigham: https://www.brighamandwomens.org
- Mayo Clinic: https://www.mayoclinic.org
- My Prostate Cancer Roadmap: https://www.myprostatecancerroadmap.com/
- Presbyterian HospitalColumbia: https://www.nyp.org
- Prostate Cancer FAQs: http://prostatecancer911.com
- Prostate Cancer Foundation: https://www.pcf.org
- Cancer Treatment Centers of America: http://www.cancercenter.com/prostate-cancer/
- Top Prostate Cancer Questions: http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org
- University of California Los Angeles Medical Center: https://www.uclahealth.org/reagan/
- University of California San Francisco: https://www.ucsf.edu
- University of Rochester Medical Center: https://www.urmc.rochester.edu
- WebMD: http://www.webmd.com
TOP 20 HOSPITALS AS RANKED BY U.S. NEWS ANDNEWSWEEK
U.S. News began evaluating hospitals three decades ago and has periodically revamped the way it measures them to improve their decisions.
Newsweek has ranked hospitals for the two years and takes a global approach, as opposed to the domestic view used at U.S. News. The full lists are available at: U.S. News and Newsweek.
U.S. Newss Top 20 Hospitals in the United States
- Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
- Cleveland Clinic, Ohio
- Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
- (tie) Presbyterian HospitalColumbia and Cornell, New York City
- (tie) University of California Medical Center, Los Angeles
- Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
- Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, San Francisco
- University of California Medical Center, San Francisco
- New York University Langone Hospitals, New York City
- Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago
- University of Michigan Hospitals, Ann Arbor
- Brigham and Womens Hospital, Boston
- Stanford Health CareStanford Hospital, Palo Alto
- Mount Sinai Hospital, New York City
- Hospitals of the University of PennsylvaniaPenn Presbyterian
- Mayo ClinicPhoenix
- Rush University Medical Center, Chicago
- (tie) Barnes-Jewish Hospital, Saint Louis
- (tie) Keck Hospital of University of Southern California, Los Angeles
- Houston Methodist Hospital, Texas
Newsweeks Top 20 Hospitals in the World
- Mayo Clinic, Rochester
- Cleveland Clinic, Ohio
- Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
- Toronto General Hospital
- CharitUniversittsmedizin, Berlin
- Johns Hopkins University Hospital, Baltimore
- Universittsspital, Zrich
- Singapore General Hospital
- Sheba Medical Center, Ramat Gan, Israel
- Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset, Solna, Sweden
- Aarhus Universitetshospital, Aarhus, Denmark
- Hpital Universitaire Piti Salptrire, Paris
- Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne
- Universittsklinikum, Heidelberg
- University of Michigan Hospitals, Ann Arbor
- St. Lukes International Hospital, Tokyo
- Brigham and Womens Hospital, Boston
- The University of Tokyo Hospital, Tokyo
- RigshospitaletKbenhavn, Copenhagen
- UMC Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
NATIONAL CANCER INSTITUTEDESIGNATED CANCER CENTERS
The National Cancer Institute has designated more than sixty facilities as either Cancer Centers or Comprehensive Cancer Centers, which are listed next. The following link will take you to its home page: https://www.cancer.net/navigating-cancer-care/cancer-basics/cancer-care-team/find-nci-designated-cancer-center. The descriptions below are also from its website.
Cancer Centers. Cancer Centers integrate research activities across three major areas: laboratory research, clinical research, and population-based research. Many of these centers also provide care and services for cancer patients.
Comprehensive Cancer Centers. In addition to the same activities conducted by Cancer Centers, Comprehensive Cancer Centers also have extensive community outreach and education programs.
Cooperative Groups. The NCI Cooperative Groups are large networks of researchers, doctors, and health-care professionals at public and private institutions that conduct multi-center, large-scale, phase III cancer clinical trials across the country.
Following is a list of Cancer Centers and Comprehensive Cancer Centers. They are listed alphabetically.
Abramson Comprehensive Cancer Center
3400 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
215-615-5858
http://www.penncancer.org/
Albert Einstein Cancer Center
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
1300 Morris Park Avenue
Bronx, NY 10461
718-862-8840
http://www.einstein.yu.edu/centers/cancer/
Cancer Therapy and Research Center
University of Texas Health Science Center
7979 Wurzbach Road
San Antonio, TX 78229
210-450-1000
http://www.ctrc.net
Case Comprehensive Cancer Center
11100 Euclid Avenue
Cleveland, OH 44106
216-844-8797
http://cancer.case.edu
Chao Family Comprehensive Cancer Center
101 The City Drive
Building 56, Rt. 81, Room 216L
Orange, CA 92868
714-456-8000
http://www.cancer.uci.edu
City of Hope Comprehensive Cancer Center
1500 East Duarte Road
Duarte, CA 91010
626-256-4673
https://www.cityofhope.org/homepage
Columbia University Irving Comprehensive Cancer Center