If you’ve been diagnosed with breast cancer, you may wonder if another doctor will look at your test results, talk to you about your personal situation, and can offer more information or a different treatment option, or perhaps give you a different perspective on your medical condition. You may need a Doctor Second Opinion.
Getting a doctor second opinion can help you feel more confident about your diagnosis and treatment plan.
We can schedule a Doctor Second Opinion on breast cancer for you in Israel. For this you should not leave your home or come to an Israeli Cancer Center. You can get Consultation Online.
Diagnoses on which you can get a doctor second opinion:
- Ductal carcinoma in situ
- Invasive breast cancer
- Triple negative breast cancer
- Paget’s disease of the breast
- Inflammatory breast cancer
- Angiosarcoma
- Phyllode tumor, etc.
What are benefits of a doctor second opinion on breast cancer?
If you’ve been diagnosed with breast cancer at your hospital, it’s important to think carefully about your choice and consider the benefits of each treatment option against the possible risks and side effects to make the decision that best suits your needs.
An online doctor’s consultation or second opinion can give you more information and help you feel more confident about your chosen treatment plan.
At the consultation, the oncology specialist will provide you with detailed information about your disease:
- the nature of your disease
- the stage of your disease (1, 2, 3 or 4)
- degree: G1 well-differentiated breast tumor, G2 moderately differentiated or G3 well-differentiated breast tumor
- explain what molecular markers are, how they affect disease prognosis and treatment
- whether you need to perform any additional screening in order to have a targeted therapy for breast cancer
- what treatment method is an option for your case: surgery, radiation therapy, chemotherapy
- whether it is necessary to combine targeted therapy drugs and chemotherapy
- whether personalized breast cancer treatment is right for you
When to get a doctor second opinion?
♦ To define a proper management for your diagnosis.
♦ In order to determine whether the surgery or a therapy is necessary or not, or may be postponed.
♦ Second Opinion on MRI, CT, MRA, SC, scintigraphy, ultrasound, PET CT, PET AC and any other scans (done in your country) by our nuclear medicine experts (radiologists).
♦ Whether new treatment options or therapy are available for your diagnosis.
♦ Whether the prescribed treatment/drugs are right for you.
♦ Whether precision medicine proper in your case or you should adhere to standard protocol at the hospital.
♦ If you have a rare or unusual diagnosis.
♦ If you want to be sure that you have explored all treatment options – surgeries, therapy etc.
⇒ More details – When should you get a Doctor Second Opinion
Documents required for Doctor Second Opinion
For the second opinion please provide:
Pathology results (biopsy), in which the specialist can find important information about the type of breast cancer, stage, cell ploidy and proliferation, the status of breast cancer hormone receptors, HER2 status, breast cancer gene expression. All this is for prescribing the right therapy.
Imaging results to look for spread of breast cancer in the body: to look for suspicious areas that may be cancer / to know how far the disease may have spread / to help determine if treatment is working / to look for possible signs of cancer returning after treatment (relapse):
- Chest x-ray – to see if the cancer has spread to your lungs
- Computed tomography (CT) scan. This test is most commonly used to look at the chest and/or abdomen to see if breast cancer has spread to other organs, such as the lungs or liver
- Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scan. MRI provides detailed images of the soft tissues of the body. This test can be used to look at the breasts or other parts of the body, such as the brain or spinal cord, for possible spread of cancer
- Breast ultrasound. Ultrasound (ultrasound) of the breast and armpits
- Positron emission tomography (PET) scan. Whole-body tomography using a radioactive sugar (FDG), which is absorbed primarily in cancer cells
- Osteoscintigraphy. A bone scan can help determine if the disease has spread to your bones. It can show all the bones in your body at once and can find small areas of cancer that are not visible on a regular X-ray.
Based on the results of an online doctor’s consultation, additional diagnosis examinations may also be required for a second opinion. Doctor will tell you which of these tests you may need.
Leading Israeli Doctors for Breast Cancer
Our doctors are heads of departments of major Israeli hospitals and Cancer Centers that work according to international protocols and apply personalized cancer treatment in Israel.
List of Doctors for Breast Cancer – Second Opinion
Second Opinion MRI / CT / PET CT – Breast Cancer
Biopsy Slides Second Opinion – Breast Cancer
What will be after the second opinion consultation?
After consulting a doctor online, you will receive a specialist’s report with treatment recommendations in English.
After consultation follow up support
We will stay in contact with you providing all the following support:
- coordinate treatment in Israel under the supervision of a doctor. You can also be treated at home, in your country, according to Israeli protocols.
- therapy drugs purchase assistance and delivery to your country
- answer your questions
- provide connection between you and the doctor for follow up.
Breast cancer treatment in Israel
Depending on the diagnosis, stage and characteristics of the tumor, spread in the body or its absence, the treatment may be as follows:
Surgery – Lumpectomy / Partial Mastectomy / Mastectomy + Sentinel Lymph Node Biopsy (SLNB) or Axillary Lymph Node Dissection (ALND)
Systemic Therapy (Chemotherapy / Hormone Therapy / Targeted therapy / Immunotherapy)
Personalized medicine for Breast Cancer based on oncotests for breast cancer).
Participation in a clinical trial
Clinical trials are carefully controlled scientific studies conducted to explore promising new breast cancer treatments or procedures in more detail.
Clinical trials are one way to get modern cancer treatment. In some cases, they may be the only way to access newer methods and therapies. They are also the best way for oncology specialists to learn more effective cancer treatments. However, they are not suitable for everyone.
During the Second Opinion Consultation, oncologist will answer your questions about participation in clinical trials in Israel.
Additional information about breast cancer diagnosis and treatment in Israel
- ⇒ Lumpectomy – breast tumor removal in Israel – doctors, hospital, timing, cost
- ⇒ Recommendations for genetic testing for all women diagnosed with breast cancer, regardless of the risk of genetic mutations and heredity. American Society of Breast Surgeons (ASBrS).
- ⇒ Treatment of non-invasive breast cancer in situ in Israel
- ⇒ Triple negative breast cancer – modern treatment in Israel
- ⇒ New treatment options for breast cancer with brain metastases in Israel
