[gchappel]

I was very lucky- in so many ways. I am a radiologist that knew and worked in the oncology community. My colonoscopy was on a Monday. My surgery was 3 days later, on Thursday. In the interim I had a CT scan, MRI liver and Pet scan. It helped that I ran the oncology imaging arm of my group.
I was very lucky to be in the right place at the right time.
In the average case, it seems to take 3-6 weeks in an asymptomatic patient to get from diagnosis to surgery.
Gary