[Evaluation of the effectiveness of treatment of operable breast cancer]

An effective treatment of patients with primary operable breast cancer seems to be feasible only in local involvement of the gland. Since a spread process would much worse respond to modern therapeutic measures. Surgery remains to be a dominant procedure. According to the data of the P. A. Herzen Research Institute of Oncology radical Halsted mastectomy at early stages of cancer provides for an effective recovery in more than 90% of patients. In females with spreading of the process, regional metastases a 5-year survival is markedly reduced up to 45.1%.