[Combined surgery in cancer of the colon]

The study was concerned with the short- and long-term results of 80 radical and 27 palliative combined resections and hemicolectomy for colonic cancer involving other organs or accompanied by solitary distant metastases. Tumor elements were morphologically identified in other resected organs (53.3%). 15.9% of surgical patients died within short periods after operation. Colon was anastomosed immediately in 97 patients (90.7%), cecostomy being performed in two of them shortly after operation. Five--year survival was 53.5% in radically--operated patients and 31.6%--in cases of palliative treatment.