Call for consolidation of gastric cancer surgery
22nd April 2014
By Hugo Wilcken
NSW patients are much more likely to survive oesophagogastric cancer surgery in the long term if it is performed in a hospital with a higher volume of procedures, new research reveals.
Patients undergoing oesophagectomy were 28% more likely to have died within five years if they had the procedure in a hospital that did fewer than six oesophagectomies annually, data from a population-based study involving over 1500 patients showed.
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