[Methods of evaluating the results of treatment of breast cancer]

The following limitations of the available prospective cooperated methods of evaluation of the results of breast cancer treatment are identified: the attention of the researcher often appears to be focused on only one and, inevitably, a rather narrow aspect of the problem. The studies are time-consuming and involve organizational difficulties. It is suggested that assessment of treatment results may be carried out faster and more effectively, if the advantages of the Soviet state system of health protection are used to the full. Such measures as life-time registration and dispensary-sponsored follow-up of all cancer patients, particularly, in large cities where cancer incidence is relatively high application of traditional therapeutic procedures developed at oncological dispensaries of the city of Moscow, computerized retrospective randomization and integration of rational methods of breast cancer treatment with practice may serve the purpose.