Evaluating Perioperative Safety and Recovery: Robot-Assisted Versus Open Radical Hysterectomy in Early-Stage Cervical Cancer

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This secondary analysis from the RACC randomized clinical trial compares perioperative safety and recovery outcomes between robot-assisted and open radical hysterectomy for early-stage cervical cancer. Robot-assisted surgery showed fewer intraoperative complications, mainly minor, without significant differences in postoperative morbidity within 30 days. Early postoperative health-related quality of life improvements with robotic surgery were small and not clinically meaningful overall.

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