Chemo after surgery

mommy13 · January 2014

how long did you wait to start chemo after surgery?

I was suppose to start chemo early January but has been post poned because of a CT. Making me 8 weeks post op

This has me a little nervous. My cancer was growing rapidly before.

What is the recommended wait time? Considering my diagnosis is 8 weeks ok?

christina0001 · January 2014

From what I remember being told, even most fast growing cancers are not going to progress so fast that a couple of months will make a major difference. If this were not the case for you, I'd like to think your oncologist would tell you. If you start chemo too early, you're not going to heal well, which makes infection more likely, and if you get an infection, they'll have to stop your chemo treatments until it's gone. So you truly are better off just giving yourself that time to heal as well as you can prior to the chemo starting.

Good luck to you!

SpecialK · January 2014

I had an unusually long time between surgery and chemo, but that was because of four additional surgeries, so I am not the norm. I believe that you are still within the recommended start time, even with your delay. Here is some study info on the start time:

http://jnci.oxfordjournals.org/content/105/2/104.abstract?sid=dd925f7c-5a42-4a82-b4f4-ae8a5597b995

http://www.smh.com.au/news/cancer/delay-of-chemo-safe-after-breast-surgery/2006/10/05/1159641442936.html

mommy13 · January 2014

Thank you for the info that makes me feel a little more at ease!!

Radical2Squared · May 2014

My plastic surgeon originally delayed my chemo from 6 weeks post surgery to 8 due to skin healing issues. I saw my oncologist a week later and he said it was common. I then dropped the bomb on him and told him I was probably going to push chemo an additional week or two on my own because I had decided to harvest eggs first. The oncologist didn't even flinch. He said it would be fine.

Chemo after surgery

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