Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy waiting time at Williamstown Hospital

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: 34 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 25 surgeries2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Waited more than 365 days: not published2024–25 · released 28 May 2026 — Reported data did not meet the criteria to calculate this indicator.

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 104 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
Williamstown Hospital	34 days	not published	25 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.

The AlfredVIC · about 8 km away9 days
Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreVIC · about 9 km away10 days
Royal Women's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 9 km away17 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 9 km away13 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 10 km away6 days
St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 10 km away7 days
Sunshine HospitalVIC · about 13 km away16 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 16 km away15 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	Williamstown Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	21	13	15
2017–18	11	13	15
2018–19	29	14	16
2019–20	11	14	16
2020–21	not published	13	16
2021–22	73	14	16
2022–23	not published	14	17
2023–24	not published	14	17
2024–25	34	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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