[Changes in hormonal-mediatory and immunological indices during anesthesia in cancer patients]

The relationship between hormone-mediator and immunologic components of homeostasis was studied in 82 surgically-treated cancer patients. The pattern of changes in immunity and non-specific resistance was found to depend on the rate of glucocorticoid hormones synthesis in adrenals. Surgery should be carried out under neurovegetative blockade, which prevents immunodepression both during and shortly after surgery.