This handbook provides surgeons with updated information about the current status, perspectives and controversies for staging and treating cancer through minimal access procedures. The authors discuss the biology of minimal access, techniques, the equipment used, the perspectives and controversies surrounding the procedures in cancer management.

Steve Eubanks, MD Duke University Ricardo V. Cohen, MD University ofS?o Paulo Riad N. Younes, MD, PhD University of São Paulo Fredrick Brody, MD, PhD Cleveland Clinic