Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer surgery, by far, in Pennsylvania.
A Pennsylvania agency devoted to health care quality says knowing how often a hospital does a given cancer surgery can help patients make the right choice about which hospital to use.
“There is strong evidence in the scientific literature that links hospital surgical volume and patient outcomes for the cancer surgeries included in this report. In other words, patients requiring one of these 11 surgeries are likely to have better results if their surgery is performed at a higher volume hospital. Lower volume hospitals are more likely to have worse outcomes, such as more deaths,” says the PHC4, an independent state agency.
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