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@callalloo I posted this study elsewhere though the focus was on the fact that radiation for those >65 made no difference in terms of metastasis or overall survival. The focus here seems to be more on the increased risk of local recurrence, without radiation. In either case I posted again that noone should make treatment decisions based on this study, without consulting a doctor.

Here is an excerpt: The investigators concluded, “Omission of radiotherapy was associated with an increased incidence of local recurrence but had no detrimental effect on distant recurrence as the first event or overall survival among [patients] 65 years of age or older with low-risk, hormone receptor–positive early breast cancer.”

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I certainly agree that no one should make any decisions based on just a study. Studies of human health are really complicated because it's impossible to isolate only one variable and hold all others identical when dealing with human beings. So there's a lot of 'noise in the system' as a statistician would call it when dealing with human beings yet alone human health. The best advice is still to try to find the experts in the field and get at least two or more opinions from them and then think it through and make what feels like the smartest decision at the time.