This progress was just announced at the 9th Gastric Cancer Conference organized by Ho Chi Minh City University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital in collaboration with the Asia- Pacific Gastric Cancer Association for the first time in Vietnam with the participation of more than 500 leading experts from 17 countries.
With the theme "Stomach cancer treatment: Solutions and progress", domestic and foreign experts presented, updated, and shared professional knowledge on new diagnosis and treatment of stomach cancer, closely linked to clinical practice.

Dr. Vo Duy Long demonstrates surgery on a stomach cancer case using new techniques.
Notably, new technologies are used to diagnose and treat early-stage gastric cancer; multimodality combinations in the treatment of late-stage cancer. In particular, recent studies in the field of gastric microbiota and molecular biology have contributed to opening a new era in personalizing gastric cancer treatment for patients.
Here, experts demonstrated and broadcasted live three cases of laparoscopic gastrectomy including distal gastrectomy, near total gastrectomy and proximal gastrectomy with Double-Flap circulation restoration technique using the fluorescent substance Indocyanine green (ICG). The use of ICG helps increase the rate of accurately determining the location of lymph nodes, contributing to more effective and thorough removal of malignant cells.
In Vietnam, the Department of Digestive Surgery at the University of Pharmacy Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City has successfully performed surgery on more than 20 cases using the above technique and has been published in prestigious scientific journals around the world.
Dr. Vo Duy Long, President of the Asia- Pacific Gastric Cancer Association, Deputy Head of the Department of Digestive Surgery, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Hospital, said that the highly updated, international-scale scientific conference, held for the first time in Vietnam, has contributed to consolidating and raising the position of the country's medicine.
Source
Comment (0)