Survival after Minimally Invasive Radical Hysterectomy for Early-Stage Cervical Cancer
Author(s) -
Alexander Melamed,
Daniel J. Margul,
Ling Chen,
Nancy L. Keating,
Marcela G. del Carmen,
Junhua Yang,
Brandon-Luke L. Seagle,
Amy L. Alexander,
Emma L. Barber,
Laurel W. Rice,
Jason D. Wright,
Masha Kocherginsky,
Shohreh Shahabi,
Jose Alejandro RauhHain
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
new england journal of medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 19.889
H-Index - 1030
eISSN - 1533-4406
pISSN - 0028-4793
DOI - 10.1056/nejmoa1804923
Subject(s) - radical hysterectomy , medicine , cervical cancer , laparotomy , hysterectomy , invasive surgery , stage (stratigraphy) , radical surgery , surgery , open surgery , cancer , paleontology , biology
Minimally invasive surgery was adopted as an alternative to laparotomy (open surgery) for radical hysterectomy in patients with early-stage cervical cancer before high-quality evidence regarding its effect on survival was available. We sought to determine the effect of minimally invasive surgery on all-cause mortality among women undergoing radical hysterectomy for cervical cancer.
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