Reviewing a proposed procedure with your chosen doctor
Ovarian Cancer Surgery
second opinion in Mumbai.
Medical term: Cytoreductive or debulking surgery
Already chosen your gynaecological oncologist in Mumbai or Navi Mumbai to review your proposed ovarian cancer surgery? When you cannot attend yourself, Redwood organises your existing records and questions, takes the case to that doctor and shares their recommendations.
You choose the doctor. We take your case to them.
Understand the procedure
What is ovarian cancer surgery?
Ovarian cancer surgery aims to remove cancer and assess its extent. It can involve the ovaries and other affected tissue in the abdomen. It is a different decision from removing a benign ovarian cyst.
This is general procedure information. Your chosen doctor assesses what applies to you.
Procedure information: Cancer Research UK: patient information
Understand the proposed plan
What the operation may involve
Your decision, your questions
Questions for your chosen doctor
Choose the questions that matter to your situation. We record them in your own words and take them to the consultation.
- Why is surgery recommended before or after chemotherapy in my case?
- How much disease do you expect can be removed?
- Might bowel surgery or a stoma be necessary?
- What would the surgical findings mean for further treatment and, where relevant, fertility?
Your existing case file
Records to organise
We organise the ct or other staging scans and available images alongside your treatment history and the written procedure recommendation. We note what you want the gynaecological oncologist to clarify and keep the original reports available for the consultation.
Share the records you already have. This is a document checklist, not a request for new tests.
Bring together what is available
- CT or other staging scans and available images
- Biopsy or previous surgical pathology
- Tumour-marker results with dates
- Chemotherapy summaries, treatment response and the proposed operation
- Your written procedure recommendation, current prescriptions and allergy details
When you cannot attend yourself
How Redwood takes your case to your doctor
- Tell us whom you have chosen. Share the doctor’s name, hospital or clinic, and the decision you want reviewed.
- Prepare the case with us. We organise your existing records, treatment timeline and questions, then coordinate the appointment.
- We attend with your case. Your Care Steward takes the organised ovarian cancer surgery case file to the gynaecological oncologist you selected and puts forward your recorded questions. After the consultation, we share the doctor's recommendations and consultation documents with you.
A video call during the consultation can be arranged if the doctor allows.
We respond within 12 hours of your enquiry.