Laparoscopic surgery: the golden standard for colorectal cancer?        ZHENG Min-hua．Department of General Surgery，Ruijin Hospital，School of Medicine，Shanghai Jiaotong University，Shanghai 200025，China
Abstract    Laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer offers several bene?ts postoperatively, including minimal impairment of gastrointestinal and pulmonary function, less immunosuppression, shorter hospital stay and improved reconvalescence. Before it becomes a golden standard, several issues should be addressed which includes laparoscopic technique by experienced hands, the high level evidence of long-term outcomes, widespread of the laparoscopic technique and wide adoption by colorectal surgeons. We believe that the laparoscopic surgery would be adopted by more surgeons in the near future and with more RCT trials evidences coming, the laparoscopic surgery should become the golden standard procedure for colorectal cancer.