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Hello there,

My mother has just been diagnosed with BC and they found it under her arm too. They have said she needs a CT scan and a mastectomy. They also say it could be another 4 weeks before she gets in for surgery and then another few weeks before she can start chemo.

I was wondering if anyone knows how we can speed up things as that seems a lot of waiting. Can you pick another hospital in another post code area that might be able to do the surgery.

Any help greatly appreciated

 

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Hi there. I’m not sure there is a way to speed things up. However I’m also not sure that’s an abnormal amount of time to wait. My mum was diagnosed with the same - bc with lymph nodes affected on 13th November. That’s the date they informed her at consultant appt but i know they knew, and discussed her case (in MDT meeting)13 days before that.
She had a oncology appt on 17th Nov as she is to begin chemo first on 1st Dec. My mum is having chemo first as its in the lymph node already but I see your mum isn’t having chemo first. Maybe it’s because my mums is grade 3 or simply because consultants work differently and decide what is best for each individual. She had a CT scan last week (routine apparently before chemo to check staging - if it’s spread )but we don’t have results yet. She had a mri of breast too so that they can measure tumour more accurately and rescan half way through chemo to check if it’s working.
Others may have a better idea, but I believe there is always a delay between surgery and chemo or chemo and surgery so that may be normal.

Hope you get some other answers soon too so you can compare that the average is.

Daisy

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I was diagnosed on 8 July and had surgery on 11 August. I think the time quoted to your Mum is a pretty standard timing. I have read that there is often no great physical urnecy to carry on to surgery but it is more about our mental health in not being worried for so long

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Hi

I changed hospitals because I had to, and it certainly didn’t speed anything up. From diagnosis to op (WLE and lymph node clearance) I waited 7 weeks. I am now waiting to start chemo, five weeks after my op and was told that they need to make sure you are well and healed after each stage before they move on to the next stage of treatment - so after the chemo I will have to wait a month or so before I can start radiotherapy.

 

I know how hard the waiting is - can you find some nice things to do to try to distract your mum? Maybe anything she wants to do ready for christmas as she is going to be having the op around then?

Take care.

 

Emxx

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I was diagnosed on October 9th and am having bilateral mastectomies on Friday . So have waited a wee while , but all the medical people,say they are not concerned with the wait so I have to trust that

Sam xx

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Good luck for tomorrow Sam!

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I swear the waiting is endless,  I reckon I’ve flashed my girls at differant person every week since mid October… 

Hugs, no solution from me. Went in for results last Monday and they biopsied me again. 

I have to say I am astounded at how quickly they start moving, just trusting the process now. 

 

They cant do chemo until the tissue heals enough from surgery, if your mum is having surgery first.

Sending love xx