You might want to contact Dr. Gary Pess at the Central Jersey Hand Center. He has offices in Eatontown, Freehold & Toms River, NJ. He did NA on both of my hands back in Dec. 2006 at his Eatontown office & is excellent. It will be just a bit of a drive, but a lot closer for you than it was for me. I live 100 miles west of Chicago.

I visited 2 hand surgeons in NYC - one from Beth Israel Hospital and one from the Hospital for Special Surgery. Both are of the watch and wait attitude and both are completely against RT. I posted my status update today in the "newly diagnosed - need advice" topic. I did visit a radiologist in NYC who has seen a few dups patients. He is not anxious to perform this therapy since his speciality is oncology. He did say that since I am now his patient - he will administer RT to me - but he also told me to think it over for a while since I am early stage. It's so confusing since early stage is when it is most effective. I am trying to slow myself down a bit and keep my options all open.

Barbara (NY)

Judy, Dr. Pess told me "there is a 100% chance these will regrow", but only my left hand has had that happen in the past 6 months. My right hand is doing just fine. I'm not disappointed with the results. Hope you can get some longterm relief soon! - Beardedbard

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