METHOD FOR DETECTING SYNCHRONOUS TUMOUR GROWTH IN MALE PATIENTS SUFFERING COLON CANCER

摘要

FIELD: medicine.;SUBSTANCE: invention refers to medicine, namely to a method for detecting the synchronous tumour growth in the male patients suffering colon cancer. Substance of the invention consists in measuring preoperative blood testosterone and intestinal cell-stimulating hormone by Immunotech test systems (Czech Republic) in the male patients suffering colon cancer. Testosterone/intestinal cell-stimulating hormone ratio is calculated; if the derived value falls within the range of 0.45-2.18 enables stating the presence of single colon cancer, while the values within the range of 0.03-0.38 provides stating the presence of synchronous tumours.;EFFECT: using the declared method enables the more accurate preoperative detection of single or synchronous growth in the given category of patients.;3 ex