Denver oncologist

I live in Colorado Springs and while I don't know of any actual melanoma specialists here, my oncologist is through Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers.  I have heard good things about many of their oncologists.  My own oncologist is Dr. Mihaela (Carmen) Matei.  I was referred to her by a nurse in another office (neurologist) who told me her daughter had been seeing Dr. Matei for a decade for stage I melanoma (NED), and that her daughter found Dr. Matei to be more thorough than the doctors at MD Anderson, which is where she had started.  I thought that was rather impressive, so I made an appt with her.  She is well-informed (even about my own, rare type of melanoma), aggressive at treating cancer, a no-nonsense kind of person who I think prides herself on being the type of physician who really takes the time to listen and not rush through visits.  She tells me if anything she probably errs on the side of ordering too many tests, but she would rather her patients be alive and if that means erring on the side of more tests than too few tests, so be it.  Another doctor has told me that she is known in the community as someone "who always has her patient's backs."  I love that about her.  

As a side note, she also suggested that it might be worth my while to obtain a second opinion at a major cancer center like MD Anderson or John Hopkins, though she didn't mention Boulder.  So this is NOT a melanoma specialty center.  My melanoma is a rare type with a poor prognosis and I assume is why she made that recommendation.

Good luck!

Cheri

I live in Colorado Springs and while I don't know of any actual melanoma specialists here, my oncologist is through Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers.  I have heard good things about many of their oncologists.  My own oncologist is Dr. Mihaela (Carmen) Matei.  I was referred to her by a nurse in another office (neurologist) who told me her daughter had been seeing Dr. Matei for a decade for stage I melanoma (NED), and that her daughter found Dr. Matei to be more thorough than the doctors at MD Anderson, which is where she had started.  I thought that was rather impressive, so I made an appt with her.  She is well-informed (even about my own, rare type of melanoma), aggressive at treating cancer, a no-nonsense kind of person who I think prides herself on being the type of physician who really takes the time to listen and not rush through visits.  She tells me if anything she probably errs on the side of ordering too many tests, but she would rather her patients be alive and if that means erring on the side of more tests than too few tests, so be it.  Another doctor has told me that she is known in the community as someone "who always has her patient's backs."  I love that about her.  

As a side note, she also suggested that it might be worth my while to obtain a second opinion at a major cancer center like MD Anderson or John Hopkins, though she didn't mention Boulder.  So this is NOT a melanoma specialty center.  My melanoma is a rare type with a poor prognosis and I assume is why she made that recommendation.

Good luck!

Cheri

I live in Colorado Springs and while I don't know of any actual melanoma specialists here, my oncologist is through Rocky Mountain Cancer Centers.  I have heard good things about many of their oncologists.  My own oncologist is Dr. Mihaela (Carmen) Matei.  I was referred to her by a nurse in another office (neurologist) who told me her daughter had been seeing Dr. Matei for a decade for stage I melanoma (NED), and that her daughter found Dr. Matei to be more thorough than the doctors at MD Anderson, which is where she had started.  I thought that was rather impressive, so I made an appt with her.  She is well-informed (even about my own, rare type of melanoma), aggressive at treating cancer, a no-nonsense kind of person who I think prides herself on being the type of physician who really takes the time to listen and not rush through visits.  She tells me if anything she probably errs on the side of ordering too many tests, but she would rather her patients be alive and if that means erring on the side of more tests than too few tests, so be it.  Another doctor has told me that she is known in the community as someone "who always has her patient's backs."  I love that about her.  

As a side note, she also suggested that it might be worth my while to obtain a second opinion at a major cancer center like MD Anderson or John Hopkins, though she didn't mention Boulder.  So this is NOT a melanoma specialty center.  My melanoma is a rare type with a poor prognosis and I assume is why she made that recommendation.

Good luck!

Cheri