The surgical treatment of gastric cancer has arrived at a turning point towards the routine application of minimally invasive techniques. After the first results of prospective randomized trials from Asia confirmed the surgical and oncological safety, the latest results of international trials provided evidence for minimally invasive gastrectomy of advanced gastric cancer in a multimodal setting. A new addition in the field of minimally invasive procedures is robotic-assisted surgical techniques, which have already been implemented for these indications in many centers in Germany. The technical advantages that are applicable in the robotics setting in comparison to laparoscopy lead to a rapid dissemination of the procedure but still need to be evaluated in controlled trials. Further developments for the surgical treatment of gastric cancer are found in the field of intraoperative imaging procedures. In this field various technologies are available, such as fluorescence imaging using a near-infrared camera, which requires the use of a fluorescent agent or the hyperspectral camera system, which does not require the application of a fluorophore and merges pictures from visible and non-visible wavelengths to a functional image. It is to be expected that in the future various technological advancements can make a valuable contribution to the surgical treatment of gastric cancer in the clinical routine, especially if they support and facilitate the use of minimally invasive surgical techniques.

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