Facer B, Wang F, Grijalva CG, et al. - Researchers investigated the long-term mortality of robotic-assisted laparoscopy vs traditional laparoscopy for clinical stage I epithelial ovarian cancer using data from the National Cancer Database. They identified a total of 1,901 patients who underwent minimally invasive surgery (ie, robotic-assisted laparoscopy or traditional laparoscopy) for clinical stage I epithelial ovarian cancer between 2010 and 2014. Conversion-to-open surgery was less frequently observed in correlation to undergoing robotic-assisted laparoscopy vs traditional laparoscopy. Robotic-assisted laparoscopy and traditional laparoscopy resulted in, however, comparable overall mortality when applied in treating clinical stage I epithelial ovarian cancer.   .