Older patients were less likely to receive surgery and more likely to be treated with radiation only or have no treatment.

年龄大的患者较少的接受手术，而更多的仅仅接受放疗或者不接受任何治疗。

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The next year was painful and difficult for me and my family. Like many people with cancer, I had to be treated with radiation followed by treatment with chemicals.

第二年对我和我的家人来说是很痛苦难熬的、就像许多癌症患者一样，我不得不首先接受放疗，再接受化疗。

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Ninety percent of patients with early-stage breast cancer can be cured when treated only with radiation and surgery, but another 3% also require chemotherapy to stop the cancer from spreading elsewhere.

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But her computer model predicts that some slow-growing tumors could be treated just as well with less-frequent radiation, sparing patients bad side effects.

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Rarely do they resemble their original species: they've been treated with radiation, doused with hormones, crossed and crossed again all so that they can be kept low and tight.

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