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Surgical Trials


Dedicated to raising the profile of clinical trials in surgery. Surgical trials offers the busy surgeon with an update of important clinical trials being developed or in progress in surgery.
Focusing on the rationale and content of new surgical trials, it gives surgeons and trainees the opportunity to learn what interventions are being evaluated and why and how they may contribute.

Laparoscopic versus robot-assisted left pancreatectomy for benign and pre-malignant lesions (DIPLOMA-3): an international multicenter patient-blinded randomized controlled trial

Charlotte E. Baggerman van Houweninge, Quirine E.M. Tielens, Jony van Hilst, Mahsoem Ali, Marc G. Besselink*, Mohammad Abu Hilal*, for the European Consortium on Minimally Invasive Pancreatic Surgery (E-MIPS)

5 November 2026

The PartBreCon-Pro Study

Amit Agrawal, Mahmoud Soliman

19 October 2026

IPa-Gastric Trial

Magnus Nilsson

26 June 2026
21 April 2026

Type B dissections: keeping it “uncomplicated” in a complicated world

Bianca Biersteker, Joost van der Vorst, Jacob Budtz-Lilly

17 December 2025

Targeting intratumoral microbiome: the MONARCH Trial takes aim at anaerobes in rectal cancer

Taylor M. Neilson, Laurence P. Diggs, Norman J. Galbraith, Jaganmurugan Ramamurthy, Neal Bhutiani, Ian Z. Hu, Arvind N. Dasari, Michael J. Overman, Scott E. Kopetz, Wei Qiao, Pranoti Sahasrabhojane, Vivian Orellana, Brian K. Bednarski, Montserrat Guraieb-Trueba, Ramy S. Behman, Ashish Damania, Nadim J. Ajami, Yan Wang, Mingxuan Xu, George J. Chang, Jennifer A. Wargo, Susan Bullman, Christopher D. Johnston, Y. Nancy You, Michael G. White

8 December 2025

THrough knee AMputation’s impact on quality of Life compared to abovE knee ampuTation: THE HAMLET TRIAL

Sophie James , Sean Pymer , Catherine Arundel, Laura Doherty, Tom Davill, George Smith

20 October 2025

Closing the treatment gap in knee osteoarthritis — the GEKO trial begins

Dr Raman Uberoi, Dr Anjali Shah, Dr Bhavisha Patel, Dr Loretta Davies, Professor Andrew Price, GEKO study group

16 October 2025
4 September 2025