“At Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center, we’re discussing the results with our patients, but the first choice is open surgery based on the results of the study.”
We jump into these procedures before they are proven, and we need to remember that patient outcomes and survival come first. I think this is another example that for us, as surgeons who care for patients that could have deadly diseases, ‘getting the tumor out’ is not simply the answer, but how we get the tumor out and in what fashion, and whether that affects the biology and aggressiveness of the disease. We learn that here, and we learned that in morcellation for sarcoma and other uterine cancers, that it does matter.