[Correlation of clinical effect, pathological response of tumor cells and the end results of combined treatment of locally advanced breast cancer]. / Korrelatsiia klinicheskogo éffekta, patomorfoza opukholevykh kletok i otdalënnykh rezul'tatov kompleksnogo lecheniia bol'nykh s mestnorasprostranennym rakom molochnoi zhelezy.

A correlation was established between the end-results of neoadjuvant chemotherapy for locally-advanced breast cancer and pathological response of tumor cells. Also, the end-results correlated with CR or PR and pathological response. Only a small proportion of patients with tumor progression were registered as stage III or IV of pathological response (0.6 and 0.8%, respectively).