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In recent study it has been found that da Vinci robotic gastrectomy can match the long-term clinical and oncologic outcomes of conventional laparoscopic surgery in patients with early gastric cancer, a large single-center study has shown. At the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2013 Gastrointestinal Cancers Symposium, researchers from Severance Hospital, part of the Yonsei University Hospital System in Seoul, South Korea, presented a retrospective analysis of their large prospectively designed database for gastric cancer.
da Vinci Robotic surgery does not appear, however, to provide superior outcomes than laparoscopy, which many experts in the beginning argued it is a question that how it we take the decision and robotic surgery will be necessary to justify the added costs of robotic surgery.
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