The Application of Laparo-Endoscopic and Robotic Surgery in Cancer Treatments and Research
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Therapy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2025 | Viewed by 1094
Special Issue Editor
Interests: hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery; gastrointestinal cancer surgery; minimally invasive surgery; laparoscopic liver resection; robotic liver resection; laparoscopic pancreatic resection; endoscopic surgery; liver cancer; biliary cancer; pancreatic cancer
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Due to the introduction of and global spread of minimally invasive surgical approaches and platforms, surgical treatments in the management of cancer have rapidly advanced over the last three decades. Laparo-endoscopic approaches and newly developed robotic platforms in cancer surgery have reportedly conferred patient-friendly, minimal invasiveness, superior perioperative outcomes and acceptable oncologic outcomes in selected patients compared to those of conventional open surgery. On the other hand, along with technical refinements and innovations, the expansion of surgical indication is still underway in minimally invasive surgery for ill-conditioned cancers and patients.
This Special Issue will highlight the present status, recent advances, innovative techniques, clinicopathological and molecular research, and future innovation and research seeds in minimally invasive surgical approaches to cancer treatments in a variety of organs.
Dr. Yutaro Kato
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- cancer
- minimally invasive surgery
- laparoscopic surgery
- endoscopic surgery
- robotic surgery
- telesurgery
- periop-erative outcomes
- oncologic outcomes
- clinicopathology
- molecular biology
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