Laparoscopic Colectomy for Cancer: The Time Is Now

Pavlos Papasavas; Philip Caushaj

doi:10.1055/s-2004-815612

Clinics in Colon and Rectal Surgery, Table of Contents

Clin Colon Rectal Surg 2003; 16(4): 225-232
DOI: 10.1055/s-2004-815612

Laparoscopic Colectomy for Cancer: The Time Is Now

Pavlos Papasavas¹ , Philip Caushaj²

¹Division of Minimally Invasive Surgery, Western Pennsylvania Hospital, Clinical Campus of Temple University School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
²Department of Surgery, Western Pennsylvania Hospital, Clinical Campus of Temple University School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Abstract

ABSTRACT

The introduction of laparoscopy for the treatment of colorectal cancer initiated considerable controversy regarding its oncologic appropriateness. Prospective randomized trials were initiated to systematically compare laparoscopic with open techniques. Over a decade later there appears to be abundant evidence indicating that laparoscopic surgery is at least as safe and oncologically sound for the treatment of colorectal carcinoma as are open techniques. Moreover, in addition to the benefits associated with a minimally access technique, laparoscopic colectomy may confer a disease-free survival benefit to a subgroup of patients with colon cancer.

KEYWORDS

Laparoscopy - cancer - colectomy

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