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The study was carried out in 55 females with breast cancer stage III-IV, aged 35-77 yrs. The patients received radiation and standard courses of CMF, or CAF, or CMF+trastuzumab, or carboplatin+vepesid, or taxotere+epirubicin, or mustoforan. Radiation was administered in fractionated single focal doses of 3 Gy. S-index was determined before treatment started by an original short (ca. 4 hrs) method of evaluating apoptotic leukocyte DNA disintegration after ex vivo test irradiation as described by Ivanov S.D. et al., 2003. The index ranged 0.40-1.44 rel. units thus correlating with 2-100 month relapse-free period. Direct correlations were identified between S-index and relapse-free period for different regimens of radiochemotherapy. S-index level in excess of 0.95 involved relatively longer relapse-free survival. In summary, our method offers means of predicting the effectiveness of a particular regimen prior to treatment thus making individualization possible. |
