Since I've talked to hundreds of fellow patients and caregivers, around the world... I would say it's dependent a bit on your neoadjuvant treatments and staging and comorbidities. But yes, for most of us stage 3 to 4 folks who do make it to surgery, the typical window is 6 to 10 weeks. Go beyond that, surgery is still very do-able, but you might be scanned again to be sure nothing has changed. But the wait time is more for letting our bodies cool down and recover from chemo and/or immunotherapy and certainly radiation. Sometimes our insides are a bit inflamed. But they do wanna strike while the iron is hot... in other words... your cancer is really beat back good and almost dormant... let's cut the sumbitch out now! Because it will come back if they don't.

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