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How Long Can You Wait Between a Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Surgery?

If surgery is your first treatment, you almost always have weeks, not days. What a national study of 373,334 women found about waiting, what a typical timeline looks like, and how to keep appointments moving.

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How Do I Get Ready for a Mastectomy?

A plain-language timeline for the weeks before, the day of and the first weeks after a mastectomy: what to pause, pack, ask and expect.

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