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🧠 New on the Cutting Edge Blog: The Science and Art of Decision-Making in Surgery
By Susan J. Moug

How do surgeons really make decisions? This BJS Commission brings together an international team to explore the evidence.

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Surgeons come from different cultures, have different religious beliefs, work in varying health systems and resources and are ultimately guided by legal requirements of the country they work in. We…
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November 14, 2025 at 5:18 PM
National implementation of Watch-and-Wait in patients with rectal cancer
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National implementation of Watch-and-Wait in patients with rectal cancer
This study describes the process of nationwide Watch-and-Wait implementation in the Netherlands and the outcome of a large multicentre W&W registry. We
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November 15, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Ten steps towards better perioperative intravenous fluid therapy
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Ten steps towards better perioperative intravenous fluid therapy
Intravenous fluids and electrolytes are drugs and, like any drug, lead to dose-dependent responses, with too little or too much leading to adverse events a
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November 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
A comparison of women and men with small abdominal aortic aneurysms
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November 12, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Staging laparoscopy for gastric cancer: European consensus
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🎯 Establish expert consensus on the timing and methodology of staging laparoscopy in gastric cancer within a multinational European context.
November 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
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‘Play to the conditions’: optimizing the operating theatre environment through lessons from elite performance domains
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‘Play to the conditions’: optimizing the operating theatre environment through lessons from elite performance domains
In 2014, a judicial court in Brazil was an unusual setting for a defining moment in the relationship between elite sport and the physical environment1. In
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November 2, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Alcohol use disorder and alcohol-related mortality after metabolic bariatric surgery: prospective controlled cohort study
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November 1, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Variation in outcomes after metabolic bariatric surgery: multilevel analysis to assess the contribution of patient, surgeon, and hospital factors
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October 29, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Impact of bariatric surgery on patients with chronic kidney disease and severe obesity: multiple-linked population-based cohort study
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October 15, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Risk factors and clinical consequences of interval cancers arising within faecal immunochemical testing-based colorectal cancer screening programme
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Risk factors and clinical consequences of interval cancers arising within faecal immunochemical testing-based colorectal cancer screening programme
Bowel cancer screening uses an initial faecal immunochemical test (FIT) with a positivity threshold set so that the colonoscopy workload generated is manag
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October 12, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Factors influencing locoregional recurrence rates in locally advanced rectal cancer after total neoadjuvant treatment versus chemoradiotherapy in the RAPIDO trial
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Factors influencing locoregional recurrence rates in locally advanced rectal cancer after total neoadjuvant treatment versus chemoradiotherapy in the RAPIDO trial
The difference in LRR between TNT and CRT mainly occurred in patients treated with sphincter-preserving surgery. Baseline information on the original tumou
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October 11, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Task sharing in elective inguinal hernia surgery in Ghana: a workforcemodel comparing surgeons and physicians
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October 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Single and double faecal immunochemical test strategies are effective in risk stratification for patients with symptoms of per rectal bleeding suggestive of colorectal cancer
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Single and double faecal immunochemical test strategies are effective in risk stratification for patients with symptoms of per rectal bleeding suggestive of colorectal cancer
Faecal immunochemical testing (FIT) is effective in detecting colorectal cancer (CRC), even in patients with per rectal bleeding (PRB), a symptom tradition
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October 9, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Inequities in ‘failure to rescue’ for Indigenous Māori after gastrointestinal cancer surgery in New Zealand
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Inequities in ‘failure to rescue’ for Indigenous Māori after gastrointestinal cancer surgery in New Zealand
Māori patients in Aotearoa New Zealand undergoing gastrointestinal cancer surgery experience higher rates of complications, ‘failure to rescue’ (FTR), and
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October 9, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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Advancing hepatic augmentation for safer hepatic surgery: insights into portal and hepatic vein embolization strategies
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October 5, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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🏥 Ethicolegal issues of innovation in endocrine surgery
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Quan-Yang Duh presents his BJS Lecture from the 2025 European Society of Endocrine Surgeons 11th Biennial Congress.

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October 6, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Prophylactic antibiotics in hand trauma surgery: a network meta-analysis
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October 7, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Advancing hepatic augmentation for safer hepatic surgery: insights into portal and hepatic vein embolization strategies
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October 3, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Impact of postoperative complications and type 2 diabetes on #BreastCancer recurrence and mortality
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Impact of postoperative complications and type 2 diabetes on breast cancer recurrence and mortality
Whether postoperative complications affect breast cancer prognosis is not clear. In this large population-based cohort study including 58 198 women with ea
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October 2, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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🏆ARTICLE OF THE MONTH: Decision paralysis
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October 1, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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Definition of failure to rescue in gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary cancer surgery: national cohort study
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Definition of failure to rescue in gastrointestinal and hepatobiliary cancer surgery: national cohort study
This national cohort study examined how different definitions of failure to rescue (FTR) affect reported rates and hospital rankings after major gastrointe
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October 1, 2025 at 7:11 PM
Endoscopic and surgical treatment options for gastroparesis: systematic review and network meta-analysis
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Endoscopic and surgical treatment options for gastroparesis: systematic review and network meta-analysis
A systematic review and network meta-analysis was performed, comparing the effectiveness of dietary, pharmacological, endoscopic, electrical, and surgical
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October 1, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Recurrence rate and mesh bulging are reduced with primary fascialclosure in ventral hernia repair: the PROSECO randomized clinical trial
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September 27, 2025 at 10:29 AM
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Effect of prehabilitation on postoperative outcomes in patients with upper gastrointestinal tract cancer: meta-analysis
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Effect of prehabilitation on postoperative outcomes in patients with upper gastrointestinal tract cancer: meta-analysis
This systematic review and meta-analysis evaluated the clinical value of prehabilitation for patients undergoing surgery for upper gastrointestinal tumours
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September 25, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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Implementation of guideline recommendations in coloanal anastomosis: results from the Tender Loving Care in Coloanal Anastomosis survey
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Implementation of guideline recommendations in coloanal anastomosis: results from the Tender Loving Care in Coloanal Anastomosis survey
The Tender Loving Care in Coloanal Anastomosis (TLC-COLA) survey provides an overview of current surgical practices and perioperative strategies for coloan
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September 26, 2025 at 9:53 AM