Laparoscopic Surgery for Rectal Cancer:Evidence from the Hong Kong Trials

• 作 者: SimonS.M.Ng;
• 机 构: Division of Colorectal Surgery Department of Surgery The Chinese University of Hong Kong Hong Kong C
• 出 处: BIT‘s2nd Annual World Cancer Congess-2009 (2009第二届癌症大会)
• 发表日期: 2009年期

　　Laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer has been shown by several large-scale multicenter randomized trials to have faster postoperative recovery and similar oncologic outcomes when compared with open surgery.However, with the exception of the United Kingdom Medical Research Council CLASICC trial, patients with rectal cancer were not included in most of these studies.Furthermore, in several recently published meta-analyses on laparoscopic surgery for rectal cancer, only a limited number of randomized trials were identified and reviewed.Further good-quality studies are thus necessary to better define the role of laparoscopic surgery in treating patients with rectal cancer.We have recently reported the 5-year and 10-year results of a randomized trial comparing laparoscopic-assisted and open resection for upper rectal cancer (Ng SS et al.Lancet 2005; Ng SS et al.Dis Colon Rectum 2009).