Tongue cancer

Today morning I got a phone call from a patient at Nashik. The patient is a female less than 40 years of age who has been treated for tongue cancer at Indore. She was operated at Indore and also took post operative Radiotherapy at Indore itself. At present her complaints are that she is not able to take even liquids properly. She has been investigated at Nashik and the doctor over there opined that it is a recurrence which is not salvageable. She has been offered palliative chemotherapy. They also have been given an impression that if chemotherapy would have been given after surgery then she had a better chance of disease control.
The lady is coming tomorrow for consultation to Mumbai. i will get a better summary of the case tomorrow.
The problems she is facing can be due to Radiotherapy or because of tumor recurrence. If it is a tumor recurrence it is bad for her.
i wanted to tell them that it is going to be a futile attempt coming to Mumabi as Indore also has excellent doctors. Also the second opinion in this treated case probably is not going to change much for her. But who am I to deny hope. They will feel better after they have consulted a premier hospital at Mumbai.
Let hope prevail.