... the efficacy of laparoscopic surgery and open thoracotomy in treatment outcomes of rectal cancer after NCRT. All trials analyzed the summary hazard ratios of the endpoints of interest, including survival and individual postoperative complications. Results: Totally, 10 trials met our inclusion criteria...

... Gastrectomy Laparoscopic surgery Overweight Radical surgical resection of the tumor remains the sole curative therapy for patients with gastric cancer [ 1 ]. Recently, laparoscopy-assisted gastrectomies, first reported in 1992 [ 2 ], have been adopted as a less invasive treatment choice than open...