Consideration on hot issues of gastric cancer surgery / 中华消化外科杂志

ABSTRACT

In China, gastric cancer is the top three malignant tumors with high incidence and mortality, which seriously endangers the lives and health of people. The comprehensive treat-ment based on surgery is still the main treatment for gastric cancer. Through the unremitting efforts and hard works of gastric cancer experts, the treatment effect of gastric cancer in China has made great progress. However, gastric cancer surgery still faces some outstanding problems. How to further improve preoperative accurate diagnosis? How to further rationalize the treatment of early gastric cancer? Where is the future development of minimally invasive techniques for gastric cancer surgery? How to break through the bottleneck of conversion therapy? These are the challenges for gastric cancer surgery. Based on relevant literature and combined with own clinical practice, the author explores the hot issues of gastric cancer surgery.