Extra delay in starting Capecitabine due to dental treatment

Hi DillonsMum,

Funnily enough I was just googling tumour doubling time then I read your post. Do you know the size and locations of your current lesions?

It turns out breast cancer actually grows quite slowly, with a doubling time of between 100 to 250 days (according to this source:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8335823/) depending on receptor status etc.

So I 2mm lesion would take at least 3 months to double to 4mm (worst case - TNBC).

So in the grand scheme of things, a few weeks delay shouldn't have a huge impact, unless that level of growth would cause issues in surrounding structures.

HTH,

Andy

Thanks for that. My liver lesion was 1cm in April with no noticeable growth in the lung, but obviously the bigger it gets the faster it will grow. I was told I should expect to be back on chemo some time this year. I feel a bit more comfortable today as I was in shock yesterday when it was decided I needed the extraction. The dentist talked to the duty oncologist while I was in the surgery. Not sleeping at all well and that doesn't help matters.