[Preliminary results of lymphatic chemotherapy in the treatment of rectal cancer].
Preliminary results of treatment of 28 patients with cancer recti, in whom lymphatic chemotherapy was applied and operative intervention as well, were studied. The results of treatment in control group, consisting of 28 patients, to whom neoadjuvant systemic chemotherapy was conducted, are adduced. Comparative analysis performed have shown that general toxic signs occurred three times lesser in patients of the main group, than in a control one; the postoperative complications was two times lesser. In one-year follow-up in the main group the recurrences and metastases were absent, in a control group the tumor recurrence had occurred in 3 (10%) of patients.