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I can't give too much advice, but you should understand going almost anywhere that they almost all use a tumor board. Meaning, no one doctor makes decisions and they meet together each week and decide cases together (surgeon, radiation onc, medical onc). So a medical oncologist who is part of a team will say the same thing as a member of the team and sounds like you want somebody totally outside to help. Yes it is hard to get to decisions and understanding, PCRI medical oncologist Mark Scholz, MD on Youtube is outstanding, your best bet on the help understanding portion. Going over data independently is a harder find and why most of us go to many places as they will each have a separate tumor board at least, and so on. So make a lot of appointments, listen to a lot of YouTubes from PCRI, and it helps, but finding someone to really help personally and go over the data is hard. Also much about treatments is all this guidelines stuff, and while guidelines in the past truly helped docs, that may not always be the case today. They can be too rule based, and as we are all individuals understand these guidelines can make it hard to get good views sometimes, other times it is simple and does follow simple paths and simple guideline following is helpful.

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So what is the Medical Oncologist’s role in the tumor board discussion……do they validate ( or invalidae) that both RP or RT are viable options……