Keyhole oesophageal cancer surgery as good as more invasive operations

  Keyhole surgery for oesophageal cancer is as good as more invasive surgery in terms of survival, according to unpublished clinical trial results.  There may also be benefits in reducing complications for patients after surgery. Professor Rebecca Fitzgerald, a Cancer Research UK-funded expert in oesophageal cancer at the University of Cambridge, said the study should give reassurance that keyhole surgery is just as good an operation, which should be better for patient recovery. The unpublished results from the phase 3 European MIRO trial were presented to the ESMO 2017 Congress in Madrid.  The study included 207 patients who were followed for an average of