In the wake of numerous morcellation cancer lawsuits, a doctor claims that he has developed a new surgical technique that will make the use of morcellators in surgery safer for future patients.

Even while it became a popular surgical tool for minimally invasive surgery, power morcellators and their manufacturers have received a lot of negative litigation and publicity within the last year. The majority of the morcellator injury class action lawsuits allege that these surgical tools are prone to spreading cancer cells in the site of surgery during laparoscopic hysterectomies and uterine fibroid removal.

Because of the increased risk of spreading an undetected sarcoma in a women’s uterus during laparoscopic surgery using a power morcellator, many doctors and hospitals have stopped using the surgical tool altogether.

Additionally, in light of the growing number of medical reports detailing injury from morcellation, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a report in April of this year advising doctors to choose alternative tools and methods to perform hysterectomies, myomectomies, and uterine fibroid treatments.

However, some medical groups do not think that power morcellators should be completely left by the wayside. Instead, they suggest that the use of specimen collection bags during morcellation could decrease the spread of cancer cells, though this suggestion was met with much resistance from doctors who consider this solution to be difficult and ineffective.

One doctor, in partnership with his colleagues, has developed a step-by-step morcellation method that utilizes surgical bags in conjunction with a power morcellator that he hypothesizes would prevent cancerous tissue from spreading during laparoscopic surgery.

Many surgeons are still fairly skeptical of such an operation using specimen bags. According to the report stating the efficacy of the new method, the doctors acknowledge the difficulties of using surgical bags.

“In the past, specimen containment bags were used for morcellation, but the bags would adhere to tissue and would be easily cut or would tear or rupture,” the report said.

“Without proper space and visualization, surgeons could not break tissue into smaller fragments without endangering the bag or the structures behind the bag,” it adds. “We were safely and precisely disconnecting tissue in our surgeries, but falling short with tissue removal.”

However, the main doctor who authored the new morcellation method claims that his innovation of creating a pocket of air inside the bag itself would allow surgeons more room to see the surgery and move the morcellation tool with precision.

While this innovation is a great news for future morcellation surgery patients, there are still hundreds of women who have suffered from the use of power morcellators during their laparoscopic surgeries and, as a result, allegedly developed cancer.

These alleged morcellation victims and their families have filed morcellator cancer class action lawsuits claiming severe pain, suffering, and diminished enjoyment of life as a result.

Dangers Associated with Power Morcellators

A morcellator is a powered surgical tool that was commonly used to create a small whole in the surgical area through which large masses of tissues were removed and were minimally invasive. Until recently, morcellation was commonly used in laparoscopic surgeries performed in the abdominal region. However, medical reports of increased risk of cancer and periphery damage began to grow.

According to several medical and consumer reports, power morcellators can cause damage to surrounding organs during any kind laparoscopic surgery, especially in surgical areas near the uterus, bowels, bladder, pancreas, and spleen. Power mrocellators are also known for allegedly spreading cancerous cells during surgery.

In light of the multiple civil and class action lawsuits lodged against power morcellator manufacturers, it is possible that other forms of surgery will become more popular in the future to avoid the risks of injury and cancer associated with morcellation.