Consultation with Dr. Patel

My sister Grace and I went to visit Dr. Patel, an oncologist in Fairfax. This was our "very local" oncologist option because she's about 20 minutes from our parent's house. My mother was unable to go because she was feeling so ill. When we showed up without the patient they were a little confused but we were able to eventually see Dr. Patel. Dr. Patel was very kind and explained things very nicely to us. She offered the standard treatment of radiation with Xeloda followed by chemotherapy with Gemcitabine. We asked her about the VMP and she rated the VMP as an 8 out of 10 on the difficulty scale whereas the standard treatment was a 2.