[Modern trends in surgery of gastrointestinal tract tumors]

Development of cancer surgery in recent decades occurs on a background of continuing scientific and technical progress. New technologies after the completion of clinical trials maximally quickly are included in the routine practice of specialized medical centers. At present an escalation of indications for extensive advanced and combined operations in locally advanced and even metastatic tumors goes in parallel with the introduction of minimally invasive interventions, search categories of patients, for whom the radicalism of treatment can be achieved without significant surgical aggression. The study of modern trends of this process will allow seeing the promising areas of scientific research, assuming the image of the future of surgery for cancer.