Hi everyone
This week I had a wide local excision and sentinel lymph node surgery to treat a grade 3 invasive cancer in my breast. After the op the nurse told me it would take 8 weeks to hear the results of the node biopsy and also to know whether the margins of the tumour they cut out are clear. This seems to be an extraordinarily long time - reading loads of folks saying they got their results within a couple of weeks of the operation.
I'm obviously desperate to know what stage my cancer is at, whether it has spread and whether I'll need chemotherapy as well as radiotherapy.
Are these waiting times normal? Is this an issue related to general delays in cancer diagnosis and pathology, or is my health board just really slow?
