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Breast cancer radiation after 70? What options have you considered?
Breast Cancer | Last Active: Feb 8, 2023 | Replies (33)Comment receiving replies
You are certainly entitled to radiation at your age. I turned 70 taking radiation. There were older ladies there.
If you are worried about recurrence, you could do radiation then. You can’t do radiation twice on the same breast.
Next they are going to ask you to take an aromatose inhibitor if your tumor was estrogen-positive.
Look up overtreatment of stage 0 breast cancer.
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I am 81 starting proton beam radiation---I had radiation in my left breast, but not proton, this
is my right breast stage 2 having it one week every day. what have you read about over-treating
estrogen-positive? are you going to take the pill for 5 years? I am not sure about that one, there are too
many side effects at my age.