Perioperative and Surgical Management of Gastrointestinal Cancers
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Cancer Therapy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2024 | Viewed by 417
Special Issue Editor
2. Cancer Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Interests: colorectal cancer; complex pelvic cancer; perioperative medicine; prehabilitation; tumour outcomes; shared decision making; body composition; mitochondrial bioenergetics
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Surgery remains a cornerstone of modern cancer care. Significant recent technological innovations, such as minimally invasive gastrointestinal surgery, novel surgical techniques, perioperative risk stratification, neoadjuvant cancer treatments, diagnostic and interventional radiology, prehabilitation and enhanced recovery care bundles have become standards of care. Combined, these novel approaches have made surgery safer, with a significantly lower stress response and improved perioperative and long-term outcomes. Despite these innovations, major gastrointestinal cancer surgery still carries substantial risks. Postoperative complications prolong length of hospital stay, increase costs, increase readmissions, and impair a ‘back to baseline’ recovery. This Special Issue entitled ‘Perioperative and surgical management of gastrointestinal cancers’ aims to bring together international experts in gastrointestinal surgery and perioperative medicine in the fields of gastrointestinal cancer surgery, including but not limited to, upper gastrointestinal, colorectal, complex abdominal and pelvic cancer surgery, together with rarer surgical groups like anal, appendiceal and peritoneal malignancies.
This Special Issue will invite international experts to contribute comprehensive narrative and systematic reviews, as well as encourage the submission of original research and clinical trial data from a variety of international health-care models, with the aspiration of highlighting current clinical unmet needs and setting the future research agenda. Topics that are currently envisaged are minimally invasive surgery, management of polyp cancers, surgical treatment of locally advanced cancers, novel oncological techniques in gastrointestinal cancer treatment, the roles of perioperative medicine in the treatment of gastrointestinal cancers, the role of prehabilitation as part of the cancer journey and updates from rarer surgical tumour types like pseudomyxoma peritonei, small bowel cancers, peritoneal carcinomatosis and anal cancer surgery.
Dr. Malcolm West
Guest Editor
Manuscript Submission Information
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Keywords
- gastrointestinal surgery
- colorectal cancer
- upper gastrointestinal cancer
- anal cancer
- peritoneal carcinomatosis
- perioperative medicine
- prehabilitation
- minimally invasive surgery
- advanced cancer surgery
- exenterative surgery
