Surgical oncology--oncologic surgery
Siewert, J.R.; Fink, U.
Langenbecks Archiv für Chirurgie. Suppl Ii Verhandlungen der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Chirurgie. Deutsche Gesellschaft für Chirurgie. Kongress 1990: 275-283
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0173-0541 PMID: 1724201 Document Number: 349944
Oncologic surgery still is the fundamental principle of cancer therapy. This is only useful when leading to a complete tumor extirpation (so-called R0-resection). Under these conditions an improvement of prognosis can be achieved. Unfortunately this aim can only be reached in some 50-70% of our patients. For all the other patients non-surgical therapy in surgery has to be secured by oncologic surgery. A most interesting development takes at present the preoperative chemotherapy or radiation therapy respectively. The aim is down-staging of the tumor to make a final R0-resection possible after all.