Laparoscopic Colectomy for Cancer Is Not Inferior to Open Surgery Based on 5-Year Data From the COST Study Group Trial - Concepedia

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Laparoscopic Colectomy for Cancer Is Not Inferior to Open Surgery Based on 5-Year Data From the COST Study Group Trial

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2007

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James W. Fleshman, Daniel J. Sargent, Erin Green, Mehran Anvari, Steven J. Stryker, Robert W. Beart, Michael Hellinger, Richard J. Flanagan, Walter R. Peters, Heidi Nelson

Annals of Surgery

Abstract

Laparoscopic colectomy for curable colon cancer is not inferior to open surgery based on long-term oncologic endpoints from a prospective randomized trial.

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