Types of Surgery

Cancer Surgery can be broken down into two broad stages:

• Methods to Gain Access to the Tumor Site
• Methods to Kill the Tumor Itself

Furthermore, some Methods to Kill the Tumor only are only performed via certain Methods to Gain Access to the Tumor Site.  These can be depicted as follows and are covered in greater detail on additional pages:

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Methods to Gain Access to the Tumor Site:
There are four main modalities by which to get to the Tumor.  These are:

• Open Surgery
• Laparoscopic Surgery
• Robotic Surgery
• Percutaneous Surgery