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Originally Posted by Rathji

My mom was diagnosed with breast cancer and started chemo less than a week later, her surgery was about a month after the chemo finished, as is standard. My dad had similar time frames.

Can you explain which part of that process is too long by your standards?

Originally Posted by rotten42

Your mom's situation is not typical. There are horrible lead times form most people looking to get treatment. From what I've been able to gather, the speed of your treatment varies greatly on the ability of your doctor to work the system.

http://waittimes.alberta.ca/CancerChemotherapy.jsp