elated survival. This latter benefit was mainly due to differences in the subset of patients with stage III tumours, in whom LAC was also associated with lower tumour recurrence and longer overall survival. If these results were confirmed by ongoing multicentre randomised trials, LAC would become the standard surgical approach to patients with colon cancer."

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