Objectives: To evaluate the results of laparoscopic colectomy for colon cancer at 103 Military Hospital. Subjects and methods: A cross-sectional retrospective study was conducted on 139 patients who had colon cancer and were treated by laparoscopic colectomy at Abdominal Surgery Department (BM2), 103 Military Hospital from 01-2007 to 12-2016. | Journal of military pharmaco-medicine no1-2018 RESULTS OF LAPAROSCOPIC COLECTOMY FOR COLON CANCER AT 103 HOSPITAL Nguyen Van Xuyen*; Bui Tuan Anh*; Do Son Hai* SUMMARY Objectives: To evaluate the results of laparoscopic colectomy for colon cancer at 103 Military Hospital. Subjects and methods: A cross-sectional retrospective study was conducted on 139 patients who had colon cancer and were treated by laparoscopic colectomy at Abdominal Surgery Department (BM2), 103 Military Hospital from 01 - 2007 to 12 - 2016 . Results: The mean age was ± . The average duration of the disease: ± months. Most tumors were in the Sigmoid colon (). The majority was melanomas () and all of them were epithelial carcinomas. Stages of carcinomas: stage I: , stage II: , stage III: . The ratio of laparoscopic procedures: total colectomy: , right hemicolectomy: , transverse colectomy: , left hemicolectomy: , descending colectomy: , sigmoidectomy: . The average duration of surgery was ± minutes. Intra-operative complications: , postoperative early complications: , postoperative late complication: . Postoperative recurrence was . The ratio of mortality: . Survival rates after 3 years and 5 years were and , respectively. Conclusion: The ratio of survival and recurrence depends on cancer stages. * Keywords: Colon cancer; Laparoscopic colectomy. INTRODUCTION Colon cancer is a common disease in the world, especially in Western Europe and Northern America. Colon cancer is the second frequent type of gastrointestinal cancer in Vietnam. The majority of colon cancer is epithelial carcinomas which progresses more slowly and is metastasized later than other cancer types; therefore, early diagnosis and radical treatment can bring good prognosis. At 103 Military Hospital, laparoscopic colectomy has been applied for colon diseases since 2004, gaining numerous .
