Minimally Invasive versus Abdominal Radical Hysterectomy for Cervical Cancer

2018 New England Journal of Medicine 1,783 citations

Abstract

In this trial, minimally invasive radical hysterectomy was associated with lower rates of disease-free survival and overall survival than open abdominal radical hysterectomy among women with early-stage cervical cancer. (Funded by the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center and Medtronic; LACC ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00614211 .).

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MedicineRadical HysterectomyCervical cancerInvasive surgeryStage (stratigraphy)HysterectomyRetrospective cohort studyOpen surgerySurgeryRadical surgeryLaparoscopyAbdominal surgeryCancerGeneral surgeryInternal medicine

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Year
2018
Type
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Volume
379
Issue
20
Pages
1895-1904
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Pedro T. Ramírez, Michael Frumovitz, René Pareja et al. (2018). Minimally Invasive versus Abdominal Radical Hysterectomy for Cervical Cancer. New England Journal of Medicine , 379 (20) , 1895-1904. https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmoa1806395

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10.1056/nejmoa1806395