[Laparoscopy in gynecologic oncology]

Using technological progress, laparoscopic lymphadenectomy is becoming a standard for staging of pelvic cancer. In the same way more extensive procedures such as para-aortic lymph nodes dissection and radical hysterectomy have been demonstrated to be feasible by laparoscopy. In the future, because of its well known advantages, laparoscopic surgery may appear as a way to decrease the consequences of oncologic treatments in patients with low risk tumors and to propose more aggressive treatments of patients with bad prognosis tumors.