ABSTRACT
The concept of “ideal” tumor surgery is to excise or remove the neoplastic tissue without
damaging adjacent normal structures. This concept requires a noninvasive nonincisional
surgical approach, which limits the tissue destruction to the targeted tumor. Noninvasive
surgery would lead to even shorter recovery time and result in even less complications
than minimally invasive techniques. Implementing such noninvasive surgical procedures
will transform current medical specialties, change existing clinical practices, and could
therefore be an important tool in reducing the cost of patient care. It is obvious that the
introduction of a noninvasive tumor destruction method will disrupt the current way of
patient management and require changes in the related infrastructures too. In the surgical
specialty, emphasis on manual skills and practical training will be replaced by a mostly
technical knowledge base. Sterile operating rooms, anesthesiology, and postoperative
intensive care units will not be required, and their relatively outdated equipment will be
replaced by a more advanced technology. Patients will return home and to work much
faster without any significant reduction in quality-of-life caused by the procedure.
Therefore any noninvasive surgical technology, when it is established and introduced in
practice, will be a disruptive technology.
