Editorial: Laparoscopic surgery in colorectal cancer

Abstract

Laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer has evolved quickly and enthusiastically applied in clinical works for almost two decades (1). Regular laparoscopic colorectal surgery usually need four or five incisions, in recent years, efforts have been spent to further minimize the trauma, reduce postoperative pain, and improve cosmetic effect (2). Innovations like natural orifice transluminal endoscopic surgery (NOTES), transanal total mesorectal excision (taTME), robotic surgery, and single incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS) has been developed to reach the goal of "scarless" surgery, which represents the state-of-the-art phenomenon in the field (3, 4). Additionally, burgeoning instruments, single-incision port devices, and robot platforms open up a new scenario of CRC surgery