Currently

laparoscopic gastric cancer surgery is the development tendency for gastric cancer. As laparoscopic experience has been accumulated

the indications for laparoscopic gastrectomy with lymph node dissection have been broadened to each stage of gastric cancer. Many clinical reports have confirmed that laparoscopic radical gastrectomy is safe

feasible

and with low incidence of surgical complications

and achieves radical cures. Its short-term outcomes are better than those of open gastrectomy

and long-term outcomes are similar to those of open surgery in gastric cancer patients. In the future

laparoscopic radical gastrectomy is expected to be the standard surgery for gastric cancer.