[The immediate results of the combined treatment of rectal cancer using intra-arterial selective polychemotherapy].

The treatment experience of 127 patients with the locally spread rectal cancer was summarized. The combined with preoperative intraarterial chemotherapy course application causes significant injurious effect on the tumor (more than 3 times decrease of the viable tumor tissue part by volume in rectal adenocarcinoma, the appearance of subcapsular necrosis regions in metastatically injured regional lymphatic nodes in 32.2% of observations) and is characterized by low common toxicity.