Can factors that influence nodal dissemination in patients with colorectal cancer be identified? Own experience.

Introduction: As one of the most common causes of cancer deaths in Poland, colorectal cancer, remains a mystery when factors affecting local and distant lymph node metastasis are concerned.

Aim: In this study the authors have analysed possible correlations between the number of regional (and distant) lymph nodes affected by cancer, location and stage of the primary tumour, levels of oncological markers CA19-9 and CEA, and the patients age, sex, body mass index (BMI), and other clinical symptoms.

Material And Methods: A special questionnaire was created for this study, and a group of 100 men and women was selected.

Stomach cancer in young people - a diagnostic and therapeutic problem.

Introduction: According to statistics, gastric cancer remains one of the most common causes of death due to neoplastic disease in the world's population. It is a common conception that this type of cancer mostly affects people in their fifth or sixth decade of life. So, when it comes to young people, for example in their twenties or early thirties, who present to a doctor with symptoms suggesting a cancer of the gastrointestinal tract, these are quite often ignored because of their young age.

Gas gangrene as a surgical emergency - own experience.

In this paper the authors would like to present a correct procedure in both surgical and hyperbaric treatment of patients with gas gangrene admitted to a surgical department during ER. Gas gangrene is not very common these days, but when it comes to dealing with gangrenous infection in the emergency it is quite likely to make errors in both diagnostic and therapeutic manners. When there is a gas gangrene in a patient at the emergency time plays crucial role and the proper application of procedures is vital for the patient's survival.

Blood serum levels of E-cadherin in patients with colorectal cancer.

Introduction: Colorectal cancer is the second most common cancer in terms of incidence in Poland. It is also the second most common cause of cancer deaths in men and the third women. In 75-80% of cases, depending on sources, it is of an occasional nature, and in the remaining 20-25% it has a hereditary character.