Breast lump removal waiting time at Casey Hospital

The median wait for breast lump removal — published by the source as "Breast lump - excision and/or biopsy" — at this public hospital in the Berwick area of Victoria was 12 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: 12 days2024–25 · released 28 May 2026
Surgeries completed: 13 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 8 when they are ordered from shortest median to longest. Hospitals with the same median share a rank.

The median wait here has fallen from 19 days in 2016–17 to 12 days in 2024–25 — down 37% — while the national median rose from 15 days to 17 days. The nearest public hospital with a shorter published wait is Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood], about 28 km away, at 9 days.

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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
Casey Hospital	12 days	not published	13 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.

Frankston Public Surgical CentreVIC · about 22 km away14 days
Frankston HospitalVIC · about 22 km away15 days
Maroondah Hospital [East Ringwood]VIC · about 28 km away9 days
Monash Medical Centre [Moorabbin]VIC · about 28 km away15 days
Box Hill HospitalVIC · about 33 km away9 days
The AlfredVIC · about 39 km away9 days
Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital [Heidelberg West]VIC · about 42 km away15 days
St Vincent's On the ParkVIC · about 42 km away6 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	Casey Hospital (days)	VIC (days)	Australia (days)
2016–17	19	13	15
2017–18	28	13	15
2018–19	17	14	16
2019–20	21	14	16
2020–21	28	13	16
2021–22	12	14	16
2022–23	not published	14	17
2023–24	not reported for this period	14	17
2024–25	12	14	17

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

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