Hong Kong professor outlines developments in surgical strategies

Tracing the evolution of esophageal most cancers surgical procedure through the years, Simon Law, chairperson of the Department of Surgery, Cheung Kung-Hai Professor in Gastrointestinal Surgery, chair and chief, Division of Esophageal and Upper Gastrointestinal Surgery Queen Mary Hospital, Hong Kong, highlighted the numerous developments in strategies and outcomes, and the sector’s evolution from palliation to personalised healing remedy.

Delivering the “Professor S.M. Chandramohan Oration for the 12 months 2025” on “Esophageal Cancer Surgery — What Have I Learned?” on Friday, he mirrored on his experiences in esophageal most cancers surgical procedure over the previous three many years.

“In the previous days, I believe loads of it was palliation. Now, we now have much more personalised care,” he mentioned.

Prof. Law mentioned so far as the event of esophageal most cancers surgical procedure was involved, it may very well be divided into three eras — the period of palliation and guarded optimism, period of surgical progress, and period of multimodality remedy.

He outlined the developments in surgical strategies, together with the usage of Indocyanine Green fluorescence imaging in thoracic and esophageal surgical procedure, and remedy modalities.

Multimodal remedy

He added that multimodal remedy was one of many main contributions to improved outcomes. 

The oration was organised by the Institute of Surgical Gastroenterology (SGE) and Liver Transplantation and the Department of Medical Gastroenterology (MGE) of Government Stanley Medical College (SMC).

Rema Chandramohan, president, ESOINDIA and A. Aravind, dean, SMC, spoke on the event. S. Jeswanth, director, Institute of SGE; B. Sumathi, professor and head, Department of MGE; L. Anand, professor, Department of SGE; P. Senthil Kumar, affiliate professor, Department of SGE; and M. Kanagavel, secretary, ESOINDIA, have been current.