Impact of randomised trial on use of minimally invasive surgery for cervical cancer
In a Correspondence article published in the New England Journal of Medicine, researchers from University Hospitals…
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New research shows breast cancer treatment in patients over age 70 can be safely reduced
Oncologists faced with treating older women with breast cancer often must decide if the treatment…
Global demand for cancer surgery set to grow by almost 5 million procedures within 20 years
Demand for cancer surgery is expected to increase from 9.1 million to 13.8 million procedures…
Better post-surgery care would dramatically improve cancer survival in LMICs
In the largest study of its kind, researchers from the Universities of Edinburgh and Birmingham,…
Surgery may offer survival advantage in certain metastatic breast cancers
Surgery, in addition to treatments like chemotherapy and radiation therapy, may increase the length of…
AI-powered microscope could check cancer margins in minutes
When surgeons remove cancer, one of the first questions is, “Did they get it all?”…
Skilled surgeons boost colon cancer survival by 70%
Patients of more technically skilled surgeons, as assessed by review of operative video, have better…
Low quantity and quality of muscle predicts poor outcomes in colon cancer surgery
Low muscle quality and quantity are both predictive of poor outcomes in colon resection surgery,…
Axillary surgery may not be necessary for all women with invasive breast cancer
More women could potentially be spared an axillary lymph node dissection — the surgical removal…
Mastectomies have been performed for over 500 years – yet we still can’t talk about them
Alanna Skuse, University of Reading In the middle of the 17th century, Mrs Townsend found…