The Nottingham opinion

So my wife and I took off to Nottingham (a couple of hours by train) to seek a second opinion on my treatment from a top three UK ENT oncologic surgeon based at Queens Medical Centre. Patrick has been fantastic since I first made contact. Armed with medical notes and scans he threw the cat among the pigeons by immediately recommending further more radical surgery before radiotherapy. The thinking is that I am young and strong and for some short term pain we may improve the longterm prognosis, we will also understand more about how far it is spread and use this information to fine tune radiotherapy.

Maverick? Research? Life Saver?