For years I used to riff on making a name for myself by pioneering robotic breast surgery. It was a joke. It was always a joke. Or so I thought until, damn, a group did it, recently reported it, and—of cours3—were hailed as having made a major advance.
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Of course, the evidence that robotic surgery produces better outcomes than standard laparoscopic surgery is weak to nonexistent, and there is one cancer—cervical cancer—for which outcomes with robotic surgery have clearly been shown to be worse.https://www.mdanderson.org/newsroom/minimally-invasive-surgery-associated-with-worse-survival-for-women-with-cervical-cancer-compared-to-open-hysterectomy.h00-159228090.html …
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