Hi, SS11, here's another "everyone is different story". My hubby had his 1st peg inserted during the cancer surgery on 4-21-05, starting May 25-05 he had 30 rad treatments[no chemo the 1st time] He was able to eat some soft foods off and on during the tx., but most of his nutrition was by peg. His rad tx. ended on July 6-05 and his peg came out Aug. 24-o5. [which was too soon in my opinion because it was a real struggle to maintain his weight once the peg was out, and that caused more problems]. Total time that peg was in was 123 days. I think the REAL question here is "at what point is the person dealing with this confident that he\she can maintain adequate nutrition and hydration to keep on the road to recovery and out of trouble?" No one can answer that but those involved and those involved need to be very honest in that assessment. Amy in the Ozarks