SECONDARY INFECTION IN CANCER PATIENTS OF THE MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM

Abstract

Infectious diseases complications remain one of the main problems of surgery. Infections are one of the causes of canser patients morbidity and mortality, along with tumor diseases. The frequency of postoperative wound complications varies between 3-34% depending on the type of surgery [5]. Cancer patients are more susceptible to the systematic immunosuppresive state, caused by malignant neoplasms and directly by antitumor therapy. It is obvious that the anticancer problem of treatment and prevention of secondary infections in these conditions becomes even more urgent than before. Objective: To analise infections complications (IC) caused by microorganisms depending on antitumor treatment in cancer patients. Materials and methods: The study included 41 (100%) cancer patients with infectious complications during antitumor treatment in the Azerbaijan Medical University (AMU) Cancer clinic for skin and soft tissue neoplasms. Most often, the pathological process was lokalized in the lower extremities in 19 (46%) patients; in the upper extremities in 14 (34,1%) patients: in the trunk in 8 (19,5%) patients. Of these 12 patients (29,2%) patients received treatment for posteopertive complicattions, 10 (24%) patients received treatment for complications – related to chemotherapy and 19 (46%) patients received treatmentrelated to radiation therapy. There were 28 (68%) men and 13 woman (36,5%) patients. The age of the patients ranged from 34 to 82 years among the studied patients with soft tissue tumors 24 (58%), skin tumors 17 (41,4%) patients .