Trends in Oncology: an Updated Review of Minimally Invasive Surgery vs. Traditional Open Surgery

Abstract

Objective: To review the recent trends in methodology for the most frequent oncological surgeries. More specifically, this paper will compare the minimally invasive methods to the conventional open method. It aims to find out whether minimally invasive surgeries are feasible treatments for certain types of cancers.

Keywords

• surgery
• minimally invasive
• oncology
• review