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Radiation Treatment Is Pointless For Old Breast Cancer Patients

December 12, 2014 By James Faulkner Leave a Comment

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Radiation Treatment Is Pointless For Old Breast Cancer Patients1

Radiation treatment is pointless for old breast cancer patients, two thirds of them being better off without it, a new research reveals. American women diagnosed with breast cancer are usually treated with surgery combined with seven to eight weeks of day by day radiation treatments.

Specialists at Penn Medicine and researchers at Duke University undertook a study to verify if indeed radiation therapy had practical outcomes.  So, they thoroughly analyzed the effect of vast randomized trials in 2004 linked with lumpectomies.  The analysts investigated records from 9 million women provided by Anthem, Inc. Among them, more than 15,000 were diagnosed with early stage breast cancer and had surgery to clear their tumors undertook radiations after.

They assessed the survival rates of ladies who had surgery, radiation and chemotherapy with the ladies who just had surgery and chemotherapy. The information uncovered that there is not a significant contrast in the survival rate of women who also experienced radiation treatment.

The research found that patients with stage one breast cancer may not require the common seven weeks of radiation treatment after the surgery to evacuate their tumors. Rather, a three-week course with higher force radiation can be as powerful.  While rates of those undertaking a short radiation therapy grew from 11% in 2008 to 34.5% in 2013, there are still numerous women who go through longer radiation courses.

Specialists inferred that mature American women experience weakness, torment and expenses for an amazingly futile ‘radiation help’.  Basically, this type of therapies did not manage to bring about any noteworthy results in expanding the subjects’ lives.

Dr. Rachel Blitzblau, the main scientist behind the study said senior cancer patients are better off  without the  exposure to radiations. Accordingly, the small benefits radio therapy brings are far from equivalent with the expenses and side effects of the treatment. A part of these side effects are lethargy, skin rankles and nerve damage.

Tragically, an extensive number of specialists and other health experts are hesitant to embrace the new recommendations.

In terms of treating cancers, what has come to be the normal approach is “more is better”.  Medics have come to believe that attacking the developing tumors with everything medically conceivable will keep them from expanding and help patients get past the ailment.

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Filed Under: Health Tagged With: Less radiation better for early breast cancer, Many Breast Cancer Patients Get Too Much Radiation Therapy, Many Breast Cancer Patients Get Unnecessary Radiation, Patients of breast Cancer Treated Longer than Required: Study, Study suggests radiation treatment for breast cancer may be excessive

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