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riss81
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1 year 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? 

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  • 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. 
  • 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 
  • 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 โ€˜heal itselfโ€™ mode rather than all those chemo poisons.