It's Official: Minimally Invasive Hysterectomy Not Safer in Cervical Cancer
Final analysis of LACC trial confirms earlier findings
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Final analysis of LACC trial confirms earlier findings
The uterus, tubes, ovaries, and lymph nodes are all removed as part of standard endometrial cancer treatment. Only a few randomized trials examined surgical procedures in terms of disease-free survival. In women with treatment-naive endometrial cancer, researchers wanted to know if total laparoscopic hysterectomy (TLH) was equal to total abdominal hysterectomy (TAH). The Laparoscopic Approach
Randomized trial results led to reduction in the use of minimally invasive surgery for cervical cancer In a Correspondence article published in the April 29, 2021 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from University Hospitals (UH) Cleveland Medical Center, and New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, found a substantial reduction in the use of minimally invasive surgery for cervical cancer after publication of the results a major study called the Laparoscopic Approach to Cervical Cancer (LACC) in November 2018. The earlier study, which compare...
CLEVELAND - In a Correspondence article published in the April 29, 2021 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from University Hospitals (UH) Cleveland Medical Center, and New York Presbyterian Hospital - Weill Cornell Medicine in New York, found a substantial reduction in the use of minimally invasive surgery for cervical cancer after publication of the results a major study called the Laparoscopic Approach to Cervical Cancer (LACC) in November 2018. The earlier study, which compared minimally invasive surgery with open abdominal radical hysterectomy in patients with earl...