Search for: [Abstract = "diagnosed cancer of stomach, pancreas and colon before surgery, to describe relation between nutrition status and the radical grade of operation, and also relation of nutrition factors and applied nutritional therapy with frequency of postoperative complications in patients receiving surgical treatment because of cancer of stomach, pancreas and colon. The study utilized clinical records of 915 patients with diagnosed cancer of stomach \(n = 282\), pancreas \(n = 108\) and colon \(n = 525\), who underwent surgery in the First Chair of General Surgery and Clinic of Gastroenterology Surgery Collegium Medicum UJ between 2000 and 2003. Four indicators for nutritional status assessment were chosen\; albumin level in blood serum, total number of lymphocytes in 1 cubic millimeter, percentage of body mass loss, and Body Mass Index. Methods of descriptive statistics were used in this study. 95% CI confidence intervals were examined. Mean values were compared with the t Student test. Frequency of events was compared using the χ2 test. Also the analysis of linear correlation and logistic regression were used. Results reaching the significance level p<0.05 were considered as statistically significant. The whole statistics was done using Excel Software. Based on the results from clinical records review a conclusion was made that about 40% of patients with cancer of stomach, pancreas and colon pres"]

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