Radiation wait.
Hi, recently diagnosed with breast cancer, IDC and within 2 weeks of the diagnosis I had a lumpectomy and sentinel lymph node biopsy at the Mount Hospital in Perth. Fairly good results by the way. I w...
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I've had a similiar experience--- seen by surgeon at private hospital days after my mammagrams.. Operated within two weeks and then the long wait for radiation at a public cancer specialist hospital. So lumpectomy in August 2013 and radiation in October. I found the wait really difficult and switched oncologists at the hospital thinking that would hurry things along-- it didn't it just got me an earlier appt with her. However I wouldn't change it now-- they were balancing other people's needs with mine and now can see that it all worked out and I appreciated having a public specialist component to my private surgeon and private oncologist. I did consider going private at one stage for radiation but would have been a huge hassle in terms of getting ther and instead of taking an hour off work every day for 6 weeks I would have needed 4-5 hours. So convenience for me was really important. Your results being pretty good maybe influencing the wait. For me not having chemo added to my sense of urgency but sometimes time waiting is also time adjusting and recovering. Best wishes