The role of the vascular surgery in oncosurgery

Abstract

Surgical resection remains the cornerstone for the curative treatment of oncological disease. In a situation when a tumour encases a critical arterial or venous structure, long term oncological control may be achieved only through careful preoperative planning within a multidisciplinary team incorporating oncological and vascular specialists. The present review addresses the principles in planning oncovascular surgery, describes the oncovascular procedure in pancreatic, liver, renal and endometriosis cancer as well as vascular involvement in retroperitoneal soft sarcoma and sarcoma in lower extremity. In conclusion, the present review highlights that major vessel involvement of a tumour mass should not necessarily be considered as a barrier to en bloc resection and hence curative oncosurgery procedure.

Keywords: oncology; oncovascular surgery; vascular surgery.