Hi everyone.
I was just wondering if anybody could tell me how long I would expect normally to wait for an oncologist appointment following a lumpectomy for triple negative breast cancer? It's now been over 3 weeks and still heard nothing even though my cancer is grade 3 so quite aggressive. I have no node involvement at present and had clear margins but the breast surgeon said I'd need chemo because of the grade. My tumour almost doubled in size between mammogram and surgery, so I'm a bit concerned. Thanks 
I was diagnosed with TNBC at the beginning of April and had a lumpectomy at the end of that month. I started chemotherapy at the beginning of July and had my last one on 1st December. Went for my radiotherapy planning scan/appointment yesterday (20th December) and due to start radiotherapy on 5th January.
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Hi Ochno
I didn't see an oncologist until after I'd had my lumpectomy and had the results back from that and the SLNB.
As there were micro deposits in one lymph node the oncologist recommended that I had both chemotherapy and radiotherapy. He did say that some doctors don't count micro deposits as meaning that it had spread to the lymph node.
He also used the NHS Predict tool which came up with a score which he said meant I'd benefit from chemotherapy.
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