Treatment Response for Individual Metastases
| Patient no. | Treatment | Location of metastases | Conventional imaging after… | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Third cycle of chemotherapy | Sixth cycle of chemotherapy | ||||
| 1 | 8 × ET | Lung | PR | PR | |
| Lymph node, mediastinum | PR | PR | |||
| 2 | 10 × ET | Liver segment 4 | NC | NC | |
| Liver segment 7 | PR | PR | |||
| Thoracic spine | PR | PR | |||
| 3 | 10 × EC | Breast | PR | CR | |
| Liver | PR | CR | |||
| 4 | 6 × ET | Liver segment 3 | NC | PD | |
| Liver segment 5 | NC | PD | |||
| Thoracic spine | NC | PD | |||
| 5 | 5 × ET | Lymph node | CR | CR | |
| Thoracic spine | PR | CR | |||
| Lumbar spine | PR | CR | |||
| 6 | 10 × ET | Breast | NC | PR | |
| Lymph node | NC | PR | |||
| 7 | 4 × ET | Lymph node | NC | PD | |
| Liver | NC | PD | |||
| 8 | 6 × ET | Lung | PR | PD | |
| 9 | 10 × ET | Lung | CR | CR | |
| Lymph node | CR | CR | |||
| 10 | 3 × EC | Liver | PD | — | |
| 11 | 3 × ET | Lymph node | PD | — | |
| Lung | PD | — | |||
ET = epirubicin/taxol; PR = partial response; NC = no change; EC = epirubicin/cyclophosphamide; CR = complete response; PD = progressive disease.