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Breast Cancer | Last Active: May 8, 2023 | Replies (117)Comment receiving replies
Reading the details of clinical trial TAILOR RT for more information. That said I was not suggested either radiation or AI. It was AI only or both. As my BC characteristics are estrogen positive AI was ALWAYS strongly recommended. I’m in my 7th month and no obvious side effects.
FYI: Radiation is local/regional for anything left behind after surgery ( which could become systemic at some point if travels into lymph system).
AI is systemic and starves ER+ BC of the needed estrogen to survive.
My age is was a definite factor. I am 72 ( not 73 as I stated). I guess I felt like I aged an additional year this year!
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The NCCN's newest guidelines recommend an oncologist consider not recommending radiation for women over 70 with certain early stage breast cancers. I think, but don't know, that the revised guideline reflects the fact that certain cancers grow more slowly in older women and can be adequately treated with drugs. The NCCN is continually revising guidelines for certain cancers in an effort to correct from what it now considers 'over treatment' in the past.