Key result
The active participation of vascular surgeons in complex cancer surgeries involving major vessels is critical for ensuring safe tumor resection and successful revascularization.
Why the study?
Oncovascular surgery, defined as cancer resection with concurrent major vascular ligation or reconstruction, is important for advanced cancers requiring specialized multidisciplinary procedures.
Vascular surgeons play an essential multidisciplinary role in advanced cancer surgeries involving major vascular structures.
Supports vascular surgeon inclusion in multidisciplinary teams for vessel-involved cancer resections; leaves open need for prospective outcome data.
For the modern practice of cancer surgery, the concept of oncovascular surgery (OVS), defined as cancer resection with concurrent ligation or reconstruction of a major vascular structure, can be very important. OVS for advanced cancers requires specialized procedures performed by a specialized multidisciplinary team. Roles of oncovascular surgeons are summarized as: a primary surgeon in vesselorigin tumors, a rescue surgeon treating complications during cancer surgery, and a consultant surgeon as a multidisciplinary team for cancer surgery. Vascular surgeons must show leadership in cancer surgery in cases of complex advanced diseases, such as angiosarcoma, leiomyosarcoma, intravenous leiomyomatosis, retroperitoneal soft tissue sarcoma, iatrogenic injury of the major vessels during cancer surgery, pancreatic cancer with vascular invasion, extremity soft tissue sarcoma, melanoma and others.
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Han et al. (2019) conducted a review in Advanced cancers with vascular involvement. Oncovascular surgery was evaluated. The active participation of vascular surgeons in complex cancer surgeries involving major vessels is critical for ensuring safe tumor resection and successful revascularization.
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