Hi, Thanks for writing in. Every cancer patient is different and accurate staging is to be done before giving treatment. Tata memorial hospital mumbai is a research center and they might have accurately done staging for your uncle. I guess the doctors want to shrink the tumor with chemotherapy and then proceed with surgery. The benefit in this situation is that the surgery is easy and there are better chances of survival. In many cancer hospitals the same protocol is used and you might take another opinion at any well known cancer center. There is Kidwai memorial institute of oncology in bangalore and cancer research center in chennai and trivandrum. Your uncle might take opinions at these centers before going for surgery. There is no single best doctor when we consider cancer treatment. It is an evolving field of medicine and I refer my patients to tata memorial hospital because their set up is organized and regularly new treatment options are reviewed for research purposes. Please do not worry.