STRATEGY AND RESULTS IN ADVANCED TUMOR DI SEASE IN EMERGENCY SITUATIONS

In this retrospective trial we examined 142 patients with advanced unr esectable cancer, who had bowel obstruction, bleeding, bowel lesion an d abscesses and who were treated with different surgical procedures (r esection, bypass, enterostomy). Mean survival rate was 8.6 months (ran ge: 0-57 months). The mortality rate reached 21.7%. Surgical reinterve ntion was necessary in 15.8% because of bowel obstruction and did not influence the survival rate. Despite advanced tumor disease and intest inal obstruction most patients had a good quality of life after surgic al intervention.