Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy waiting time at Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre

Median wait, long waits and volumes for Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy at this public hospital, with the nearest alternatives that published a figure.

Reference period 2024–25 (1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025) · released 28 May 2026

Median wait: 10 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 267 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: 1.5%2024–25 · released 28 May 2026

Half the people who had this surgery here waited less than the median, and half waited longer. Of the 105 public hospitals that published a median wait for this surgery in 2024–25, this one sits at 6 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

How this compares

Median wait, long waits and volume for Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy, 2024–25.
Where	Median wait	Waited more than 365 days	Surgeries
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre	10 days	1.5%	267 surgeries
Victoria (all public hospitals)	14 days	0.3%	3464 surgeries
Australia (all public hospitals)	17 days	0.2%	10691 surgeries

Where the wait is shorter nearby

Bars show the median wait in days. The vertical line at 17 days marks the national median.

Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 0 km away13 days
Royal Women's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 0 km away17 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 2 km away7 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 2 km away6 days
The AlfredVIC · about 6 km away9 days
Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 9 km away34 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 9 km away15 days
Sunshine HospitalVIC · about 13 km away16 days

Distances are straight-line, measured between hospital locations, and are approximate. The search covered 250 km.

How the wait has changed

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View these numbers as a table

Median wait in days for Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy, by financial year. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Reference period	Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	9	13	15
2017–18	10	13	15
2018–19	10	14	16
2019–20	10	14	16
2020–21	8	13	16
2021–22	9	14	16
2022–23	9	14	17
2023–24	13	14	17
2024–25	10	14	17

What is not here

Public hospitals only. Private hospitals do not report to this collection, so their waiting times cannot be compared here.

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