KEY POINTS IN DECISION FORMING PRIOR TO PERFORMING CANCER SURGERY
Pre-operative evaluation extremely important for all diseases
Radiology
Laboratory
Clinical
1.WHO should be operated
2.WHO should operate
3.HOW to operate
4.WHEN to operate
Increasing emphasis on stratification and expert surgery
Total radical removal of disease
Collecting complete staging information on histology
Adapting surgical aggressiveness to tumour and patient
Induction chemotherapy to selected patients