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Laparoscopy for Malignancy: Current Status

Department of Surgical Oncology and Technology, Imperial College of London, St Mary's Hospital, London, UK

S. Purkayastha, BSc, MBBS, MRCS

A. Darzi, MD, FRCS

Department of Surgical Oncology and Technology, Imperial College of London, St Mary's Hospital, London, UK

The acceptance of laparoscopy for the management of oncologic disease has been slow because of initial fears regarding the effect of this new approach on the interaction between the patient and the tumor. Since the initial attempts at laparoscopic resection, experience and technology have improved in parallel, facilitating improvements in this area. Laparoscopic oncologic surgery has a role in the management of oncologic patients at all stages of disease. Good evidence exists that laparoscopy has become an invaluable staging tool in many upper gastrointestinal cancers as well as lymphomas. The specter of port-site recurrence has loomed over the use of a laparoscopic approach for curative resections. However, it is clear from many reported trials that the initial prevalence of port-site metastases was more a technical issue rather than a problem with laparoscopy. Current large, multicenter trials will report the true outcomes of laparoscopic colon cancer surgery and its comparison with open surgery. It does appear that laparoscopic cancer surgery is feasible, safe, and oncologically sound. We fully believe that laparoscopic cancer surgery will play an increasingly major role in the management of gastrointestinal malignancies.

Surgical Innovation, Vol. 11, No. 1, 27-36 (2004)
DOI: 10.1177/107155170401100106


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