Development of Gastrointestinal Cancer Surgery
A special issue of Medicina (ISSN 1648-9144). This special issue belongs to the section "Oncology".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (20 May 2024) | Viewed by 8537
Special Issue Editors
Interests: general, emergency and trauma surgery; digestive surgery; laparoscopic surgery; surgical oncology; advanced surgical technologies; basic science; colorectal surgery
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Interests: colorectal surgery; digestive surgery; laparoscopic surgery; surgical oncology
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Interests: colorectal surgery; digestive surgery; laparoscopic surgery; surgical oncology
Special Issues, Collections and Topics in MDPI journals
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
According to GLOBOCAN, five major gastrointestinal cancers (esophagus, stomach, pancreas, liver, and colorectum) acount for 5 million new cases and almost 3.5 million cancer-related deaths worldwide. Despite remarkable advances in diagnostics, screening, combined systemic and surgical treatment, and new personalized medicine approaches, some of these cancers still have poor prognoses. Usually, due to cancers frequently being diagnosed at an advanced stage, treatment options are limited and cure is not possible.
The Special Issue of Medicina aims to discuss novel treatment strategies and share the most recent findings of developing and implementing new energy devices and technologies to improve gastrointestinal surgery cancer results.
Therefore, this Special Issue of Medicina will cover some of the topics presenting cutting-edge research related to the development of gastrointestinal cancer, from the implementation of ex vivo patient and liquid biopsies and biomarkers nowadays to the benefit of indocyanine-green-, fluorescence-, and 3D-model-guided surgery. We also invite you to share data about the novel interventional, minimally invasive, and surgical management methods of gastrointestinal cancer surgery.
We are soliciting original articles, clinical trials, systematic reviews, and meta-analyses.
Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Conventional, laparoscopic, and robotic surgery;
- Minimal invasive surgery;
- Surgical technique and energy devices;
- Esophageal, gastric, and duodenal cancers;
- Biliary and pancreatic cancers;
- Hepatocellular carcinoma;
- Colorectal cancers.
Dr. Justas Žilinskas
Prof. Dr. Tadas Latkauskas
Dr. Saulius Švagždys
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- conventional vs laparoscopic surgery
- robotic surgery
- minimally invasive approach
- gastrointestinal cancer surgery
- energy devices
- ex vivo and liquid biopsy
- ICG
- 3D
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