Comparison of oncological outcomes between robotic and laparoscopic surgeries for gastric cancer: a multi-institutional cohort study in Japan - PubMed
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- #Laparoscopic Gastrectomy
- #Robotic Surgery
- Robotic gastrectomy (RG) is non-inferior to laparoscopic gastrectomy (LG) in terms of 3-year relapse-free survival for gastric cancer.
- RG had longer operation times and less blood loss compared to LG, but postoperative complications were similar.
- RG showed significantly better relapse-free survival in patients with pathological T4 disease compared to LG.
- The study included 3181 patients from 19 Japanese hospitals, with 676 RG and 1352 LG patients after propensity score matching.
- RG and LG had comparable 3-year overall survival rates.