Preoperative probiotics decrease postoperative infectious complications of colorectal cancer.

Background: The objective is to elucidate the effects of oral bifid triple viable probiotics among patients with colorectal cancer.

Methods: Sixty patients undergoing radical colorectal resection were randomly assigned to 3-day (days -5 to -3) preoperative probiotics (group A, n = 30) or placebo (group B, n = 30) treatment. The alteration of intestinal flora was evaluated by fecal cultures of Escherichia coli, Bifidobacterium longum and intestinal fungi; the gut barrier function by serum endotoxins and D-lactic acids and the immune and stress responses by peripheral blood immunoglobins, interleukin-6 and C-reactive protein.

[Analysis of reoperation in 35 cases of locally recurrent rectal cancer].

Objective: To explore the indication and the procedure of reoperation in patients with locally recurrent rectal cancer.

Methods: Clinical data of 35 patients with locally recurrent rectal cancer from January 1998 to December 2002 undergone reoperation were analyzed retrospectively.

Results: Among the 35 cases, 19 underwent radical resection, 11 palliative resection and 5 colostomy(or laparotomy).