Minimally invasive surgery for stomach cancer needs to be done for 1-5 hours, and some highly difficult surgeries need more than ten hours.
Minimally invasive surgery is a means of treating stomach cancer in clinic. Each patient’s condition and tumor location are different, so there will be differences in the specific operation time. If the tumor is small and the location is not special, the surgery can be completed in 1-2 hours.
However, if the tumor is larger in size or in a special location, the anatomical process of the surgery will be more complicated, and the surrounding organs and tissues need to be cleared, so the time needed will be longer, which can be 5-6 hours, and even some patients’ surgery time reaches more than ten hours.