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By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Robotics & Machine Learning Daily News Daily News-New research on Oncology - Rectal Canc er is the subject of a report. According to news reporting originating from Hang zhou, People's Republic of China, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, "Th is study attempted to compare short-term outcomes of laparoscopic surgery (LS), robot-assisted laparoscopic surgery (RS), and open surgery (OS) for lateral lymp h-node dissection (LLND) in treatment of rectal cancer through network meta-anal ysis. Embase, Web of Science, PubMed, and The Cochrane Library databases were se arched to collect cohort studies on outcomes of LS, RS, and OS for LLND for rect al cancer." Our news editors obtained a quote from the research from Shulan (Hangzhou) Hospi tal, "Newcastle- Ottawa Scale (NOS) was utilized to evaluate the quality of cohor t studies. Primary outcomes should at least include one of the following clinica l outcome measures: operative time, blood loss, total lymphnode harvest, positi ve resection margin rate, postoperative complications, and postoperative hospita l stay. A network meta-analysis was conducted using STATA software. Fourteen coh ort studies including 8612 patients were eligible for inclusion. The network met a-analysis results showed that, in terms of intraoperative outcomes, the RS grou p had the longest operative time, while the OS group had the shortest; the LS an d RS groups had significantly less blood loss than the OS group. In terms of his tological outcomes, there were no significant differences in the total number of lymph nodes harvested and the positive margin rate among the LS, RS, and OS gro ups (P > 0.05). Regarding postoperative outcomes, the OS group had the highest probability of postoperative complications and the longes t hospital stay, followed by the LS group, with the RS group being the lowest. R S was the best method in blood loss, postoperative complication rate, and postop erative hospital stay, followed by LS."
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