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Breast lump removal waiting times in Victoria

The median wait for breast lump removal in Victoria public hospitals was 14 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026). The national median was 17 days. The source publishes this surgery as "Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy".

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

34 public hospitals in Victoria reported breast lump removal in 2024–25. They are ranked by their published median wait alone, shortest first.

Compare this near you → On the compare page, pick "Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy" and type your suburb to see the public hospitals within reach, ordered by their published wait. Nothing you type there is kept.

8 hospitals have no published median wait for this surgery in this period. They are listed last, marked "not published", and are never ranked.

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

Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy in Victoria public hospitals, 2024–25. Hospitals with the same median share a rank and the next rank is skipped. Every figure was released on 2026-05-28.
Rank Hospital Median wait Waited more than 365 days Surgeries
1 St Vincent's On the Park 6 days not published 26 surgeries
2 St Vincent's Hospital [Melbourne] 7 days 0.0% 133 surgeries
3 Box Hill Hospital 9 days not published 18 surgeries
3 Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood] 9 days 0.0% 358 surgeries
3 The Alfred 9 days 0.0% 115 surgeries
6 Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre 10 days 1.5% 267 surgeries
7 Bass Coast Health 12 days not published 34 surgeries
7 Casey Hospital 12 days not published 13 surgeries
7 Latrobe Regional Hospital [Traralgon] 12 days 0.0% 100 surgeries
10 Royal Melbourne Hospital [City Campus] 13 days 0.0% 229 surgeries
11 Frankston Public Surgical Centre 14 days 0.0% 60 surgeries
11 The Bendigo Hospital 14 days 0.0% 132 surgeries
11 University Hospital Geelong 14 days 0.0% 92 surgeries
11 Werribee Mercy Hospital 14 days not published 39 surgeries
11 West Gippsland Healthcare Group [Warragul] 14 days not published 27 surgeries
16 Frankston Hospital 15 days 0.0% 70 surgeries
16 Goulburn Valley Health [Shepparton] 15 days not published 49 surgeries
16 Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West] 15 days 0.3% 306 surgeries
16 Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin] 15 days 0.0% 526 surgeries
20 Sunshine Hospital 16 days 0.0% 193 surgeries
21 Northeast Health Wangaratta 17 days not published 30 surgeries
21 Royal Women's Hospital [Parkville] 17 days 0.6% 157 surgeries
23 Albury Wodonga Health [Wodonga Campus] 20 days 3.4% 58 surgeries
23 The Northern Hospital [Epping] 20 days 0.0% 242 surgeries
25 Ballarat Health Services [Base Hospital] 22 days 0.0% 135 surgeries
26 Williamstown Hospital 34 days not published 25 surgeries
unranked Austin Hospital [Heidelberg] not published not published 9 surgeries
unranked Blackburn Public Surgical Centre not published not published not published
unranked Dandenong Hospital not published not published not published
unranked Djerriwarrh Health Service [Bacchus Marsh] not published not published not published
unranked Monash Medical Centre [Clayton] not published not published not published
unranked Royal Children's Hospital [Parkville] not published not published not published
unranked South West Healthcare [Warrnambool] not published not published not published
unranked Western Hospital [Footscray] not published not published 7 surgeries

Ranked by area in Victoria: near Box Hill · near Clayton · near Fitzroy · near Frankston · near St Albans.

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The median wait for breast lump removal in Victoria public hospitals was 14 days in 2024–25 (AIHW MyHospitals, released 28 May 2026).

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Surgery Waits, "Breast lump removal waiting times in Victoria", 2024–25 data released 28 May 2026, https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/breast-lump-removal/vic/, accessed 28 May 2026.

Attribution: Surgery Waits (https://surgerywaits.au/surgery/breast-lump-removal/vic/), from Australian Institute of Health and Welfare MyHospitals data, CC BY 3.0 AU. Reference period 2024–25, released 28 May 2026.

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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