Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgery for Gastrointestinal and Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Cancers
A special issue of Cancers (ISSN 2072-6694). This special issue belongs to the section "Clinical Research of Cancer".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2026 | Viewed by 2
Special Issue Editor
Interests: minimally invasive surgery; laparoscopic surgery; robotic surgery; gastrointestinal cancers; hepato-pancreato-biliary cancers
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Dear Colleagues,
We invite you to contribute to the Special Issue of Cancers, titled “Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgery for Gastrointestinal and Hepato-Pancreato-Biliary Cancers”. Laparoscopic and robotic techniques offer minimally invasive options for treating gastrointestinal and hepato-pancreato-biliary cancers, providing potential benefits such as faster recovery and improved short-term outcomes.
Despite advances in multidisciplinary treatments, surgery remains the only potentially curative approach for these malignancies. Minimally invasive surgery—including laparoscopic and robotic methods—has become increasingly mainstream in gastrointestinal and hepato-pancreato-biliary procedures. While such approaches have demonstrated safety and feasibility their long-term oncological outcomes remain under debate, highlighting the need for further research.
This Special Issue aims to explore current surgical management strategies for gastrointestinal and hepato-pancreato-biliary cancers, with a focus on minimally invasive surgery, neoadjuvant and adjuvant therapies, and clinical outcomes. We also welcome submissions presenting translational research related to this topic.
We look forward to receiving your submissions.
Dr. Kosei Takagi
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- minimally invasive surgery
- laparoscopic surgery
- robotic surgery
- gastrointestinal cancers
- hepato-pancreato-biliary cancers
- neoadjuvant therapy
- adjuvant therapy
- outcomes
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