What is surgical oncology?

As we know oncology is one of the wide field that deals with the development of the cancer. Long back ago, Surgery was the only treatment for cancer with the wide number of surgeons pushing their wide streams of knowledge to explore new things. Only in the last few years we have developed the techniques which we use along with the surgical oncological procedures. Despite the development in the radiation technique and others surgery is the only best way to remove the solid tumor mass. Surgery alone cannot be more effective but now a days clubbing of the surgery with new targeted techniques like molecular therapies, poly chemotherapy and radiation therapy also proves to be the effective one. Surgical Oncologists are just more than a surgeon and knows to deal with all specialties related to the cancer treatment. This is the way how they become more specialized among the Surgeons.

The techniques used in the Surgical oncology includes,

·                   Minimally invasive cancer surgery
·         Sentinel node biopsy
·         Robotic Surgery
·         Intraoperative chemotherapy and radiation therapy
·         Reconstructive Surgery