How long between diagnosis and surgery?

My surgery was a day shy of 2 months from diagnosis. However, my tumor was small at 6 mm. I understand the worry about the wait as I felt it as well. Perhaps you can try to find another surgeon, or ask to be put on a cancelation list in case someone else cancels her surgery. 

about five weeks for me. I had chemo after Mx. Grade 3, 8cm.

Hi ladies

I am about 3 weeks out from my final reconstruction surgery for double mastectomy and am so thrilled with the results it’s astonishing now even though I felt my wait to get completed was excessive. I did not have surgery until my chemo was complete due to harsh nuclear treatments because I had 3 sentynl lymph’s affected on left side and as a stage 3c it was deemed too risky to try and remove giant 8 tumor hiding up to my armpit and mimicking muscle tissue not presenting as typical BRCA 2 tumor.

If I had to do over again I would have insisted on surgery before chemo for the simple fact that you are better able to heal and they would better monitor recovery and maintain quality of care until deemed cancer free.

I decided instead to focus on saving my nipple tissue for reconstruction to avoid any nipple tattoos and the fact that my biopsies came back benign for years after all those needle biopsies I felt I deserved to keep them instead of throwing them away for an over abundance of caution and not solid medical facts to base an informed decision on .

My doctors agree that when we know better we do better so don’t ever be afraid to force your issues to be answered to your satisfaction in the medical field... remember these people work FOR you and if you don’t like what they are proposing to do to you get a second opinion not bullied into sub standard options due to lack of knowledge or skill of doctors hoping to get your business!

It took me 4 interviews to find the right woman for the job but we are both very proud of the results!

I had a small area of DCIS (10mm), medium grade, and my lumpectomy was 3 weeks after DX. I was surprised how quickly that went because my case was not *that* serious. But that was because I choose private medical care, if my surgery was to be performed by the public health system, I would have to wait at least 4 months...

diagnosis was 3/6/17, surgery was 3/31/17. So 2.5-3 weeks

my initial diagnosis was 6/27; following surgeon consult, additional tests (MRI and two more biopsies) and plastic surgeon consults, my mastectomy was 9/22 so three months. By then I'd had a sentinel node biopsy and knew chemo and radiation would follow surgery so had also consulted with those doctors too. I was bald for thanksgiving and Christmas that year. The following year I had a full head of hair for thanksgiving and was cancer free. I was 12 days past DIEP reconstruction at Christmas so moving slowly. This year I hosted thanksgiving for 21 and am taking a 12 day trip to visit friends in Europe in advance of Christmas. So while this holiday may be crappy for you due to your cancer diagnosis i hope the next one is great.

My initial mammogram was on December 28, 2018. It took the radiology center three weeks to get back to me and tell me to come in for another mammogram and ultrasound. They recommended a biopsy and my gynecologist referred me to a breast surgeon who was able to see me quickly and perform a biopsy in her office. I was lucky because my insurance covered an MRI before the biopsy results came back so that's out of the way. I got the call on Monday, February 4, 2019 that the biopsy was positive. I met with the breast surgeon on Wednesday and the plastic surgeon on Friday. Tomorrow I get my pre-surgery EKG. I hope they can move quickly as my tumor is 4.9 cm (on MRI, initially it was only 2.7 cm on ultrasound) and I just want it out me ASAP because, like you, I don't want it to get any worse. The stress of waiting has really knocked the wind out of me.