Effect of Perioperative Intravenous Infusion of Lidocaine on the Postoperative Course and the Immune Response in Patients Undergoing Surgery for Colon Cancer - the PILDI Study

Inclusion Criteria: * colon cancer of any stage of the disease for which elective laparoscopic colon resection and colonic anastomosis will be performed, * age of patients between 18 and 80 years, * low to moderate risk of anesthesia (ASA up to and including 3), * ability to understand the study and to sign an informed consent to participate in the study Exclusion Criteria: * patients receiving neoadjuvant chemotherapy, * pregnancy or breastfeeding, * known allergy to lidocaine * cardiac rhythm disturbances (bradycardia \< 45 beats/min, complete heart block, use of group III antiarrhythmics), * status post cardiac arrest, * porphyria, * myasthenia gravis, * severe hepatic impairment (cirrhosis, ascites, bleeding disorders, jaundice, encephalopathy), * renal disease (hamodialysis, creatinine clearance \<30 mL/min), * epilepsy, * active infection, * presence of viral or systemic fungal disease, * uncontrolled psychotic state, * ulcerative gastric or duodenal disease, * chronic corticosteroid therapy.