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Can laparoscopic approach improve survival of patients with colon cancer? This is a crucial question for thousands of patients and many physicians in industrialized world. If laparoscopic approach improves, beyond documented early postoperative quality of life, also survival, then patients' reference to specialized departments with experience in laparoscopic surgery is an appropriate decisions making. Lacy et al. [1] in the July 2008 issue of the Annals of Surgery report on a randomized trial and conclude that laparoscopy-assisted colectomy (LAC) as compared with open colectomy (OC) for nonmetastatic colon cancer significantly improves recurrence-free and overall survival. Given the major clinical implications of this finding, if it is true, we would like comment on whether this is a robust conclusion or because of potential biases this finding can be interpreted as a chance occurrence.