Table 5.

Pathological response after neo-adjuvant chemotherapy and definitive surgery.

Study	pT0 (%)	<pT2 (%)
Kim et al. [12]	12.5	–
van de Putte et al. [13]	31.4	43.2
Galsky et al. [14]	31	–
Gandhi et al. [15]	35–63	–
Chau et al. [16]	36.9	–
Khaled et al. [17]	25.6	–
Fairey et al. [18]	27.3	45.5
Pal et al. [19]	25	58
Matsubara et al. [20]	40	44
Scosyrev et al. [21]	20	44
Kaneko et al. [22]	50	63.6
Dash et al. [7]	26	36
Herchenhorn et al. [23]	26.7	–

–, not available; pT0, complete pathological response (pCR); <pT2, pathologic downstaging (pR).