Peter Attia· MD
the radiation therapy we've talked about that the majority of women who are 70 and younger and who are vigorous and healthy uh who have uh early stage breast cancer are going to be advised to get radiation therapy
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The headline is broadly defensible, but the qualifications matter. Effect sizes vary by population, the strongest claims rest on shorter trials, and credible voices push back on how it's typically framed.
the radiation therapy we've talked about that the majority of women who are 70 and younger and who are vigorous and healthy uh who have uh early stage breast cancer are going to be advised to get radiation therapy
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many women in their 7 and even older will have to think about radiation treatment depends on the type of cancer they have their overall health status and fundamentally uh you know as a ballpark term you might say whether they have a 10-year life expectancy or not such that radiation is likely to be of some value to them in preventing recurrence over the next decade
the majority of women who are 70 and Young and who are vigorous and healthy uh who have uh early stage breast cancer are going to be advised to get radiation therapy U many women in their 70s and even older will have to think about radiation treatment depends on the type of cancer they have their overall health status and fundamentally uh you know as a ballpark term you might say whether they have a 10-year life expectancy or not such that radiation is likely to be of some value to them in preventing recurrence over the next decade
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