Breast lump removal waiting time at St Vincent's On the Park

The median wait for breast lump removal — published by the source as "Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy" — at this public hospital in the East Melbourne area of Victoria was 6 days in 2024–25.

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

These figures describe surgery that already happened, not your own wait.

Median wait: 6 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 26 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 1 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

No public hospital nearby published a shorter median for this surgery in this period.

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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
St Vincent's On the Park	6 days	not published	26 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.

St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne]VIC · about 1 km away7 days
Peter MacCallum Cancer CentreVIC · about 2 km away10 days
Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus]VIC · about 2 km away13 days
Royal Women's Hospital [Parkville]VIC · about 2 km away17 days
The AlfredVIC · about 4 km away9 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 9 km away15 days
Williamstown HospitalVIC · about 10 km away34 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 12 km away9 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	St Vincent's On the Park (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	not reported for this period	13	15
2017–18	not reported for this period	13	15
2018–19	not reported for this period	14	16
2019–20	not reported for this period	14	16
2020–21	not reported for this period	13	16
2021–22	not reported for this period	14	16
2022–23	not reported for this period	14	17
2023–24	not published	14	17
2024–25	6	14	17

Public hospitals only — what these figures include and leave out.

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