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How Soon After Lumpectomy Does Radiation Start?

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Somersworth, NH
April 21, 2023
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A MyBCTeam Member

My radiation started 2.5 months following surgery

April 22, 2023
A MyBCTeam Member

It depends on healing. You need to be fully healed from surgery, and the surgeon and/or plastic surgeon has to give the ok. I started 6 weeks after.

April 21, 2023
A MyBCTeam Member

The radiation oncologist told me the window for radiation was 12 weeks after surgery. I opted out of radiation.

April 21, 2023

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