Current evidence regarding the optimal surgical approach to potentially curable right colonic cancer is based on numerous, well designed randomised controlled clinical trials. Currently, eminence based opinion suggests that an alternative surgical technique, single incision laparoscopic surgery (SILS), may improve short and long term outcomes after minimally invasive right colonic resection. A true, prospective analysis comparing standard of care (laparoscopic right hemicolectomy) and this "new" therapy(SILS) has yet to be published. Having established the optimum treatment modality the minimally invasive approach to right colonic tumors the results will be communicated at national and international meetings.
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operative time
Timeframe: Within 3 months of surgery
pain scores (visual analog scale)
Timeframe: Within 90 days of surgery
cosmesis satisfaction
Timeframe: within 1 year of surgery
Peri-operative complications will be recorded within 3 months of the index operation
Timeframe: within 3 months of surgery
Intravenous narcotic/ oral analgesic requirements
Timeframe: Within 3 months of surgery
Resumption of intestinal function/ diet - Duration to discharge home - Return to normal activity
Timeframe: within 3 months of surgery
Duration to discharge home
Timeframe: within 3 months of date of surgery
Return to normal activity/work
Timeframe: within 6 months of surgery