Dr. Dino PratoEnvita Medical Centers · Founder and CEO at Envita Medical Centers

10 Questions You NEED To Ask Your Cancer Doctor

3 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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In this brief presentation, the speaker introduces a pocket-sized checklist of ten critical questions that patients should ask during oncology or integrative medicine appointments. The checklist focuses on probing the percentage of tumor cells expressing specific markers, identifying molecular targets, and evaluating whether the physician has a clear strategic plan for treatment. By obtaining concrete data on tumor marker expression and target match, patients can gauge the likelihood that a proposed therapy will be effective, shifting the decision‑making process from generic, trial‑and‑error approaches to personalized, targeted treatment. The speaker emphasizes that a higher number of matched molecular targets correlates with increased response rates, and that asking these questions reveals the clinician’s expertise and the suitability of the treatment for the individual patient.

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I've created this pocket checklist, the 10 right questions that you can bring to any oncology visit, any integrative doctor's visit, and ask the doctor the questions, what percent of my tumor cells are expressing this? What are the markers? And by asking those questions, you're going to get the right kind of answers that are going to tell you this place knows what they're doing or they don't, or this doctor has a good strategy plan, or they don't. And that in my clinical experience, is going to give you the best understanding of whether the treatment is going to work for you or not. That's the answer you want, Is this going to work for me? Because if you ask that general question, it's just like a clinical trial, treats all the people with the same treatment. It only works for a percentage. The more the molecular targets you have, the higher percentage of working, the more targets, the more target match, the higher the percentage of it working. And you're getting to your goal of getting the good response rate. That's what you need is this transition from guesswork to targeting.