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I just read this article about radiation for older women. Don't know your age!

https://www.statnews.com/2023/02/15/older-breast-cancer-patients-study-radiation-survival-rates/

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This is a very interesting article, thank you for sharing it with me. I’m 61, I feel I should do radiation therapy just not sure about the 4-5 weeks. The doctors are talking about 16 days whole breast and 5 days target where the tumor was. I’m just concerned about about the damage from the radiation later down the road.

Just want to make sure to say that I posted the study on radiation for older women because it was interesting, but I made no comment at all and it is up to everyone to read it and understand that there are lots of studies with lots of conclusions that I and we are not qualified to assess 🙂 In no way was I posting that in order to guide anyone's decisions, and concluding anything from that study would be premature unless your doc uses it!