Salinas, CA GAO Finally Investigating Surgical Device That Can Spread Cancer

by Richard Kuehn on 09/08/15

A month after Congress called on them to do so, the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) has said that it plans to investigate a surgical device which was marketed for decades before the Food & Drug Administration warned that it spread uterine cancer.  The laparoscopic power morcellators were commonly used to cut up growths called fibroids in minimally invasive surgeries such as hysterectomies.  The FDA warned last year that there are 1-in-350 odds the fibroids harbor an undetected cancer and surgery on them could spread the cancer.