[Characteristics of the hormonal metabolic status of patients with colonic and rectal cancer].

Peculiarities of hormone-metabolic status in patients with cancer of the rectum and colon consist of 1) symptoms of cancrophilia, 2) disturbances of enteric endocrine system and 3) properties of the tumour tissue, determining first of all its hormone sensitivity. Determination of steroid hormone (estrogens and progesterone) receptors does not appear a sufficiently informative criterion of colorectal cancer tissue hormone sensitivity; the adenylate cyclase reaction to the hormonal stimulators is more informative in this respect. The data obtained may be useful in the working out of adjuvant therapy methods in cancer of colon and rectum (including hormonotherapy and metabolic rehabilitation).