For cancer patients who require surgery as part of their treatment, our doctors sometimes rely on robotic surgery to help remove hard to reach tumors, shorten surgery times or lessen side effects for patients compared to traditional surgery. These tools first made their appearance in the late 1990s and are becoming more and more common in operating rooms.
Robotic surgery doesn’t mean that a robot is performing the operation. Instead...
Sometimes our surgeons must perform life-altering surgeries to remove cancer. And, in many cases, cancer surgeries have the potential to dramatically...