Hi girls..i need to ask if anyone knows how long it takes from the time your diagnosed with breast cancer until your op is scheduled. My mum went in to see her GP three weeks ago about her shingles, she has had for more than a year. The GP gave her a physical and found a lump in her right breast and sent her to the hospital for a series of biopsies. Then a week later she went back for the results and it came back positive for cancer, she has been told she will have a lumpectomy and if it has spread a complete removal of the breast. My fear is how much waiting around will there be waiting for her operation. Does anyone have any experience with this.( I should say my mum is 77 years old)