Some surgeons currently advise against minimally invasive surgery for cancer, while others propose that laparoscopic colectomy is the preferred approach. Read what this expert panel has to say.

Laparoscopic surgery. The word "laparoscopy" means to look inside your abdominal cavity with a special camera or scope. Your doctor makes 3 to 6 small (5- to 10-millimeter) cuts in your belly.

If colorectal cancer is found through screening, surgery is quickly scheduled to remove the tumor. The standard open surgery could take a full week of hospitalization, but a less invasive ...

Guillou PJ et al. (2005) Short-term endpoints of conventional versus laparoscopic-assisted surgery in patients with colorectal cancer (MRC CLASICC trial): multicentre, randomized controlled trial.

Laparoscopic Surgery: A minimally invasive technique using a laparoscope, ... They are rare but can cause blood vessel injury, bowel injury, nerve injury, and port-side hernia.

CHICAGO — Laparoscopic surgery for colorectal liver metastases nearly equaled or surpassed open surgery for almost all outcomes, according to results of the randomized, phase 3 OSLO-COMET trial ...

Short- and long-term outcomes of laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer in the elderly aged over 80 years old versus non-elderly: a retrospective cohort study. https://bmcgeriatr.biomedcentral ...

Laparoscopic colorectal surgery for cancer in a regional service hospital: single surgeon experience, Ankara Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi Tıp Dergisi, 58, 1, ...

At Keck Medical Center of USC, minimally invasive surgery offers faster road to recovery for colorectal cancer patients. At Keck Medical Center of USC, ...

Indian doctors perform a laparoscopic surgery on a 27-year-old man to treat colon cancer. Read to know more Love Bhushan, a 27-year-old medical student, diagnosed with colon cancer, successfully ...

Nature Reviews Clinical Oncology - Laparoscopic bowel resection: comparable efficacy to that of open surgery in patients with colon cancer. Skip to main content. Thank you for visiting nature.com.

Commentary on a study comparing laparoscopic with conventional open surgery for the treatment of colon cancer, published December 2012 in the Annals of Surgery.