Modern strategies on oncologic surgery
Davydov, M.I.
Vestnik Rossiiskoi Akademii Meditsinskikh Nauk 9: 43-46
2001
ISSN/ISBN: 0869-6047 PMID: 11676254 Document Number: 528171
The main modality of treatment of solid tumors, surgery is a basic component of treatment of most solid tumors. Despite the wide introduction of new drugs into oncological care and improvement of highly effective drug treatments, surgery still remains the "golden standard" in treating the vast majority of solid tumors. Oncosurgery as an area of surgical science greatly differs from general surgery as it defines a procedure not as local resection of a primary tumor, but as ablastic mobilization of the tumor with the regional lymphatics en block. In addition to improvement of intervention radicalism, expansion of a scope of dissection of lymphatic return tract makes it possible to make an adequate staging of the true spread of a tumor and to make its prognosis.