How long from surgery to radiation

hray1993

How many weeks did everyone wait from surgery to when they started radiation? I’m currently out of a vehicle the motor blew in my van so I’m trying to see how long I have before I HAVE to have a vehicle to get to radiation. I’ve read 3 weeks but I’d like to see how long others waited from surgery to the start of ra

December11

Almost 8. My surgery was May 19. Radiation will start July 13.

hray1993

that’s a long time. Did they say why they are waiting so long?

MinusTwo

Surgery was September. Rads started February. Almost five months. You should be fine

hray1993

I didn’t realize it was such a long wait for everyone I thought it might be 6 weeks max I wonder why they wait so long?

MinusTwo

Each case is different. I was HER2+ and had chemo before surgery. But I didn't have a complete response. So after the surgery healed some, I had a 3 infusions of a different chemo. Then started Herceptin before I started rads.

hray1993

oh okay I just finished chemo I go to surgery next. I don’t think I had a complete response to chemo. I can still feel my tumor some. I’ll have my post chemo mri on the 17th. I’m thinking surgery might be around the 2 of August then rads after that

AliceBastable

I had to have another, unrelated surgery in between lumpectomy and radiation. So I had the lumpectomy on July 11, a re-excision on August 8, the other surgery September 18, then I started radiation October 29th. All the doctors told me it should be no more than 12 weeks between the re-excision and start of radiation. (I'm sure this is different for patients having another active treatment like chemo.) The radiology nurse called a few times to nag me to start earlier, but I was adamant about waiting as long as possible to let my body heal - and the first few weeks of rads were pretty rough due to the stretched-out position.