Mine was ten months after. I have heard if you do it too early their can be complication with lesions and healing issues. We waited till we didn't feel anymore heat radiating from the area. Basically the surface may look healed but there is still radiation in the area doing its work and healing all the while. But any plastic surgeon will tell you doing surgery on radiated tissue is kind of a crap shoot. They teally don't know how it's going to react aesthetically.

You might want to wait to see how your skin responds after radiation is over. Radiation can cause some difficulties with the exchange surgery.

I finished radiation June 2016 and had my exchange surgery Oct 2016. And I just had nipple reconstruction Feb 2017.

I met with him last July right after my surgery pathology came back with the tumor more than 3 times the size of the tumor the core biopsy revealed. In the hospital after my BMX, my breast surgeon said I wouldn't need radiation because my Sentinnel as clear. Then when the Pathlogy report came back with a 7.1 cm tumor, they started to make all of these appointments for me. Quite frankly I had so many appointments in the last 2 weeks of July, I really don't re,ember what they said. I was still in the state of shock, I think. I do remember we met with him for about an hour and he talked about the pros and cons of radiation. Then he left it up to me if I wanted to do it or not. I guess they use 3 things to determine if you need radiation after a BMX. They use tumor size, lymph node involvement and I think margins. Well 2/3 of those things I was negative. So the RO, back in July, told me he couldn't tell me one way or another whether RAD would benefit for me. At the end of the day, I decided I needed to do everything possible to up my chances of not getting a reoccurence. I think when you have a tumor as large as mine which grew so quickly , it makes you wonder. Even at my BS appt 2 weeks ago,,she said she was surprised with a tumor that large it hadn't metastisized or gone into my lymph nodes. I was just really lucky I did a 6 month followup mammogram on a non cancerous tumor that was removed in 12/15.

Nope not a control freak just want to be informed. Hell, its your body they are radiating. Best to know how much your are going to glow if you are going so your not surprised at night when the lights go out. I met with my doctor before it began and she was very clear and took all my questions and concerns and gave me very reassuring answers about everything to long term effects. That I guess I was comfortable with because I can't remember the answers.