1. Current role of minimally invasive approaches in the treatment of early gastric cancer
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Savtaj S Brar, Natalie G Coburn, and Abraham El-Sedfy
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medicine.medical_specialty ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Sentinel lymph node ,Population ,Endoscopic mucosal resection ,Japan ,Gastrectomy ,Stomach Neoplasms ,Republic of Korea ,medicine ,Humans ,Minimally Invasive Surgical Procedures ,Topic Highlight ,education ,education.field_of_study ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Dissection ,General surgery ,digestive, oral, and skin physiology ,Gastroenterology ,Cancer ,Endoscopy ,Robotics ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Surgery ,Early Gastric Cancer ,Lymphatic Metastasis ,Quality of Life ,Laparoscopy ,business - Abstract
Despite declining incidence, gastric cancer remains one of the most common cancers worldwide. Early detection in population-based screening programs has increased the number of cases of early gastric cancer, representing approximately 50% of newly detected gastric cancer cases in Asian countries. Endoscopic mucosal resection and endoscopic submucosal dissection have become the preferred therapeutic techniques in Japan and Korea for the treatment of early gastric cancer patients with a very low risk of lymph node metastasis. Laparoscopic and robotic resections for early gastric cancer, including function-preserving resections, have propagated through advances in technology and surgeon experience. The aim of this paper is to discuss the recent advances in minimally invasive approaches in the treatment of early gastric cancer.
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- 2014
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