Citizen Petition Raises Concerns About Robotic Mastectomy Trial

One doctor is using his expertise to advocate for better premarket surveillance of cancer-treatment devices.

A doctor consults a woman awaiting srugery in a hospital bed.
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A clinical trial for a robotic mastectomy is not properly informing study patients about the risk for worsened cancer, a doctor said in a recent citizen petition to the US Food and Drug Administration.

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