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From NBC News world headquarters in New York, this is NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. While it might stand to reason 이치에 맞다, the experts say it’s as important as ever to point out the person performing the surgery is an extremely important factor in determining the medical outcome 결과. The story from our chief science correspondent Robert Bazell.

 

Today’s study looked at the outcome of more than 7,700 prostate cancer operations 전립선암 수술. If the surgeon had performed ten or fewer of the operations, the cancer returned within five years in 17.9% of the cases. If the surgeon had performed more than 250 cases, the rate of recurrence 재발 dropped to 10.7%.

 

Dr. Peter Scardina, one of the study’s authors, says the effects of experience are as significant as powerful medications. “You give a patient a drug to reduce the recurrence rate and a huge success would be if you dropped the recurrence rate from 17%-10%. So the effect of a good experienced surgeon can be as powerful as the billion dollar a year drug.”

 

Patients can find the most experienced surgeon in a number of ways. There’s lots of information about doctors available on websites, public sites run by states and Medicare, and private efforts like healthgrades.com where Dr. Samantha Collier is the chief medical officer. “What you want to find out is, first of all, is your doc in good standing? Where’d he go to medical school, residency training? Are they board certified 전문의 자격이 있는 in their specialty 전문, 전공?”

 

“I notice that…that your PSA 전립선 수치 looks very good.” Armed with that information, Dr. Collier says, patients should make appointments with ~와 만날 시일을 정하다 surgeons in their health plan and ask how many procedures <의학> 수술 they’ve done and what the complication 합병증 rate is. If a doctor refuses to answer those kinds of questions, experts say, a patient should go shopping for another doctor. Brian?

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