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By Matthew Stenger  / Thursday, November 6, 2014 10:52 AM

Wide Geographic Variation in Use of Laparoscopic Colectomy for Colon Cancer

There has been a dramatic increase in the use of laparoscopic colectomy for colon cancer. In a Medicare data study reported in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, Reames and colleagues found that use of laparoscopic colectomy varied from 0% to 66.8% across hospital referral regions in the United...