title: Novel endoscopic therapeutics for early gastric cancer.
abstract: Gastrointestinal cancers are among the commonest cancers worldwide. Treatment of these cancers at an early stage will result in a significantly better prognosis. Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) is a new method of endoscopic resection that can achieve higher rates of en bloc resection for early gastrointestinal neoplasia. Three retrospective case-control studies showed that ESD achieved significantly higher en bloc resection with lower recurrence rates than endoscopic mucosal resection for treatment of early gastric cancers. Most of the reports on clinical outcomes of ESD were from countries with a high incidence of gastric cancers, including Japan and Korea. The development of ESD has been slow for countries outside Japan and Korea because ESD requires a high level of endoscopic skills, and the dissection was performed single-handedly without assistance. A newly developed robotic endoscopic platform will enhance the performance of ESD through the use of 2 robotic arms: one arm for retraction of the mucosa and the other arm for dissection.
authors: Department of Surgery, Hong Kong Jockey Club Minimally Invasive Surgical Skills Center, Institute of Digestive Disease, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. Electronic address: philipchiu@surgery.cuhk.edu.hk.
authors: Philip Wai Yan
authors: PW
authors: Chiu
mesh_terms: D004724:Endoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D007723:Korea; D012371:Robotics / Q000379:methods; D013274:Stomach Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D016896:Treatment Outcome
keywords: EGC; EMR; ESD; Early Gastric Cancer; Endoscopic Submucosal Dissection; GI; MASTER; Master and Slave Transluminal Endoscopic Robot; Review; Robotic Endoscope; early gastric cancer; endoscopic mucosal resection; endoscopic submucosal dissection; gastrointestinal