Improved Quality of Life Outcomes After Laparoscopy-Assisted Distal Gastrectomy for Early Gastric Cancer

Abstract

Comparison of LADG to ODG in patients with early gastric cancer resulted in improved QOL outcomes in the patients followed for up to 3 months in the LADG group.

Safety and feasibility of laparoscopy-assisted distal gastrectomy with suprapancreatic nodal dissection for clinical stage I gastric cancer: a multicenter phase II trial (JCOG 0703)

“…Although whether this modality is appropriate for cancer treatment remains a concern, the technical diffi culties of LADG have been gradually solved. Several studies have reported that LADG allows a better quality-of-life outcome than an open distal gastrectomy (ODG) [6][7][8][9][10][11]. Although several studies have reported that LADG is a safe procedure with regard to morbidity and mortality [12,13], other studies have reported that LADG has a higher risk of surgical morbidities such as anastomotic leakage, stenosis, and pancreatic fi stula formation than ODG [14,15].…”

Comparative study of laparoscopicvsopen gastrectomy in gastric cancer management

“…LGS oncologic patients: less surgical stress, less blood loss and complications, better cellular immunity and cytokine release pattern [7,8,17,18] .…”

Comparison Surgical Outcomes between Laparoscopic and Conventional Distal Gastrectomy for Early Gastric Cancer in Obese Patients

“…Large amounts of intra-abdominal fat can obscure vascular [4][5][6] In the recently published KLASS-01 trial morbidity and mortality report, laparoscopic gastrectomy showed advantages in terms of estimated blood loss, length of hospital stay, and overall complication rate, especially for wound complication. 7 However, laparoscopic gastrectomy requires a longer operation time than that of open gastrectomy.…”