Microflora in colonic cancer complicated by an inflammatory process

: The microbiological investigation was performed in 53 patients with carcinoma of the colon, 32 of them having inflammatory complications of the tumor. High incidence of the infected state of the tumor surface, infected regional lymph nodes and regional venous blood was noted especially by enterobacteria. The bacteria isolated were found to be highly resistant to most widely used antibiotics. For the antibiotics to have a bacteriostatic or bactericidal effect, they must be used in great doses which must be often higher than therapeutically admitted ones.