Steve explains the importance of having your colorectal cancer medical team work
with you. “Don’t be afraid to get a second, or even a third opinion,” he says.
Title: Importance of second opinions
“I know other people who don’t get along very well with their oncologist. Go find
another one. Go get a second opinion, a third opinion. I think that’s perfectly
legitimate. I think it’s very important to have your medical teamwork with you,
and in fact, I think you need to kind of manage them.
I had a medical team, both locally, my own oncologist and then I would go into the
city and have another set of doctors there, and it was very nice to have them talk
to one-another, which I would kind of force at times by sending letters to them.
Copying them all – gee, I wondered about this or that or the other thing. And it
was very useful to get them to work together. They were excellent in communicating
with each other.”