Surgery/chemo timings

Hi Lumpy1

Welcome to the forum and sorry to hear that you have been diagnosed with breast cancer. I was diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer last September and had a six week wait to start treatment, I started at the end of October.  I had chemo first then surgery and radiotherapy and I'm now in remission.

Wishing you the best of luck with your treatment when you start it.

Best wishes

Daisy53

Thank you Daisy53. It just seems like forever. 

Really pleased to hear that you are now in remission.

Best wishes

Lumpy1

Thanks Lumpy1

Hi wishing you well with your treatment, have you been given a start date for your treatment xxx

Thank you. I start chemo on 14th September. Relieved to finally have a date in the diary. Are you currently receiving treatment? x

Hi pleased you have a start date for your treatment. I thought they liked to start treatment 6 weeks after surgery, so how long has it been since you had surgery  Best wishes xx

Did you have to have further surgery to get clear margins, or removal of yr auxiliary lymph nodes xx

I've actually asked them to investigate why it took so long. I do need to have a double mastectomy and auxiliary node removal as they found further cancerous areas and that it had spread to my lymph nodes. The surgeon actually called me back a week earlier than my original appointment to give me my results. I chased through the Macmillan nurse who told me that they were doing the appointments the next day. Still heard nothing and had to chase again before I finally had an appointment. My chemo nurse said that they had to start chemo within 31 days of my oncologists appointment and just said that I had to be recovered from my surgery. However I had no issues recovering from my surgery and would have been ready to start more than a month ago. I'm just keeping my fingers crossed that this doesn't affect my outcome.