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riss81
Member
2 years ago

Surgery

Hi everyone. 
I'm have about 7 treatments left of Taxol and am about to discuss surgery with my doctor. Just wondering in general how long people waited to have surgery after chemo was complete? 
  • Blossom1961's avatar
    Blossom1961
    Member
    2 years ago
    Mine was four weeks, but it is up to the surgeon. They generally like you to recover from the chemo first so that your body is back into ‘heal itself’ mode rather than all those chemo poisons. 
  • cranky_granny's avatar
    cranky_granny
    Member
    2 years ago
    Mine was 3 weeks. It could probably depend on whether going private or public as well. My surgeon must have shuffled stuff around because i went public though that was 7 years ago wait list are longer now thanks to Covid. I was also classified as urgent 
  • Tri's avatar
    Tri
    Member
    2 years ago
    I had a 5 week gap between chemo and surgery. 
    Not sure if you are regional, but aside from my health readiness, my surgeon explained there was also a bit of demand for theatre vacancies where the procedure was done so she was juggling the procedure to tap into their availability as well.