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Breast Cancer Radiation: Why It Doesn’t Improve Long-Term Survival | Dr. Jenn Simmons

Name: Breast Cancer Radiation: Why It Doesn’t Improve Long-Term Survival | Dr. Jenn Simmons
Uploaded: 2025-09-05T12:00:17+00:00
Duration: 34 s
Channel: Jenn Simmons, MD
Description: Dr. Jenn Simmons argues that radiation for breast cancer reduces local recurrence but doesn't improve overall survival and often adds toxicity. The…

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Dr. Jenn Simmons argues that radiation for breast cancer reduces local recurrence but doesn't improve overall survival and often adds toxicity. The speakers emphasize that long-term survival and quality of life matter most, and patients should have a real say in treatment decisions.

We treat these.
Patients like they're idiots. Like they don't. They don't and shouldn't have a say in what happens to them. And this is not only in the world of chemotherapy.
This is also.
Incidentally, in the world of radiation, of course, because, you know, you and I can have a conversation about what radiation adds, which most of the time is nothing but toxicity. It only allows for decreased recurrence in the breast locally. Locally. But it does not treat long term outcome. And that's the only.
Thing that matters. Because at the end of the day, all any of us care about is.
Survival and durable survival, long term survival.
And survival, that is quality of life.