Asking for a second opinion is common practice. It helps people to feel more confident about their health care choices. Cancer is a complex disease and there are multiple types of therapies like surgery, chemotherapy or immunotherapy and radiation therapy. Each tumor type has unique response rate. So there are multi modality treatments in cancer ie combination of surgery, chemotherapy and radiotherapy.
The important game changer is correct sequencing of right therapies chosen. Similarly, same stage and same type of cancers behave different with same treatment in different individuals. So there can not be blanket treatment for cancer. It has to be personalized. This all require education, updates, experience and common sense . Hence second opinion at times can bring in new thoughts for better treatment planning and execution.
Dr Hitendra Patil strongly believes in comprehensive and joint consultation. Hence, we have joint clinic facility ie first and second opinion together. This is unique and of its own kind in private set up. It can be called as “personalized tumour board“.