THE ROLE OF BIOLOGICAL MARKERS IN THE DIAGNOSIS OF POSTOPERATIVE INFECTIONS IN COLORECTAL CANCER SURGERY (review)

Infectious complications in colorectal cancer surgery is one of the major problems in postoperative complications structure. The frequency of the latter is 5-22%, and in 5-20% of cases such complications lead to death. It should be noted that the development of postoperative complications leads to a decrease in the quality of life of patients, general and relapse-free survival of patients operated on for colorectal cancer. One of the promising ways to diagnose postoperative infectious complications after surgery is to assess the level of biological markers of plasma inflammation. It can be used to identify patients with a high probability of infection and be an indication for earlier additional methods of diagnosing complications. Currently, biomarkers that are used for early postoperative infection detection include increase in the leukocytes level in peripheral blood, CRP, PCT, CD64 neutrophils and others. Despite the large number of studies, the question of the role of these biomarkers in postoperative infections diagnosis in the patients who under went colorectal cancer surgery remains unclear.