[Combination therapy of cancer of the colon]

Combined treatment of colonic cancer with pre- and postoperative chemotherapy, or with preoperative irradiation by intensive method increases the five-year survival by 9.2 and 14.1%, respectively, when compared with the surgical treatment only, but simultaneously the number of purulent complications at the early postoperative period increases 3-fold. A cryosurgical method in colonic cancer has not the disadvantages of the radio- and chemotherapy.