Robotic liver surgery can be a safe outpatient procedure, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons. In fact, 8% of the patients sampled in the analysis were discharged to go home on the same day.
Breast, bladder, and pancreatic cancers are increasingly being treated with a broad range of therapies before a patient undergoes surgery, and cancer stage at diagnosis continues to be a leading factor in determining a person’s survival rate for all types of cancer, according to the first-ever annual cancer report from the National Cancer Database.
