Introduction.

In our country, gastric cancer is one of the most common neoplasms and its diagnosis is generally made in advanced stages. The objective of this study was to describe the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, surgical experience, and complications in patients with gastric cancer. In our country, gastric cancer is one of the most common neoplasms and its diagnosis is generally made in advanced stages. The objective of this study was to describe the sociodemographic and clinical characteristics, surgical experience, and complications in patients with gastric cancer.

Methods.

A series of cases is presented in which the medical records of patients with a histological diagnosis of gastric adenocarcinoma, who underwent minimally invasive gastrectomy at the National Cancer Institute of Bogotá, Colombia, between January 2012 and December 2018.

Results.

Conventional laparoscopic gastrectomy was performed in 31 patients (75.6%) and by robot-assisted laparoscopy in 10 patients (24.4%). The clinical stages were IA in 20 patients (48.7%), IB in three (7.3%), IIA in nine (21.9%), IIB in five (12.2%), and IIIA in four patients (9.7%). Twenty-four total gastrectomies (58.5%) and 17 distal gastrectomies (41.4%) were performed. There were no intraoperative or postoperative deaths at 30 days. The predominant lymph node dissection was D2 in 92.6% (n = 38) of the cases. Postoperative complications occurred in 17.1% (n=7).

Discussion.

Gastrectomy due to gastric cancer, performed by conventional laparoscopic and robot-assisted approaches, appear to be safe and feasible procedures. The determination of disease-free survival and cancer-associated mortality will be necessary to establish the oncological safety of this type of procedure in our environment.

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