In 2016, the World Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology (WJGO) has published the 11^st issue which containing 5 articles contributed by scientists worldwide. Among these comprehensive articles are (1) “Robotic rectal surgery: State of the art”, a Review by Fabio Cianchi, MD, et al from the Center of Oncological Minimally Invasive Surgery, Department of Surgery and Translational Medicine, University of Florence, Italy; and (2) “Case of pseudo-Meigs' syndrome caused by gastric cancer-related metastatic ovarian tumor with prolonged survival”, a Case Report by Masaru Okamoto, MD, et al from Department of General Internal Medicine, Tottori Prefectural Central Hospital, Japan, etc. We invite you to peruse all 5 articles in this issue, as they present the latest research progress/findings and provide insightful comments in gastrointestinal oncology that will guide basic research and clinical practice in these fields.

This journal is an open-access journal which allows free immediate access to all full-text articles. For details, please visit: Volume 8, Issue 11, November 15, 2016.

Figure 1 The cover of the issue. Editorial Board Member of World Journal of Gastrointestinal Oncology, Isabelle Van Seuningen, PhD, Director, Inserm UMR-S 1172 Team “Mucins, epithelial differentiation and carcinogenesis”, Jean-Pierre Aubert Research Center, Lille cedex 59045, France

The WJGO is a leading academic journal devoted to reporting the latest, cutting-edge research progress and findings of basic research and clinical practice in the field of gastrointestinal oncology. It was launched on October 15, 2009 and is published monthly (12 issues annually) by BPG, the world's leading professional clinical medical journal publishing company.

We encourage gastrointestinal oncologists worldwide to submit manuscripts to the WJGO describing their original basic or clinical research findings that are of high academic value and which report new diagnostic techniques or summarize their treatment experiences.

We invited the readers to download and read the E-Journal of this issue, at: http://www.wjgnet.com/1948-5204/e-journal.htm.