“…In their retrospective study, the authors report on surgical and general complications, local recurrences and survival rates of 543 oncological patients operated within a 24-year period of professional life [9]. The variety of oncological entities ranging from gastrointestinal tumors, lung cancer and its metastases, thyroid and renal cancer, breast cancer and malignant melanoma to malignant soft-tissue tumors reflects the situation in a small, standard hospital that, for economic reasons, is obliged to cover a wide area of oncological surgery but with limited infrastructure and without the possibility of specialization.…”