May 17, 2008
Outcomes Similar for Laparoscopic, Open Colon Cancer Surgeries
“For a long time, many surgeons have been afraid that laparoscopy might impair survival in colorectal cancer patients and cause metastases in the skin openings that are used to insert the instruments, but this has provennot to be the case”
Minimally-invasive laparoscopic surgery and open surgery for colon cancer produce similar outcomes, according to researchers who reviewed findings from 12 international studies involving over 3,300 patients. via Health Resources
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