A new study shows that robotic surgery provides several important advantages over the laparoscopic approach to colorectal resections. The retrospective cohort study, published in the Journal of ...

Efficacy of chemotherapy followed by chemoradiation versus initial chemoradiation as part of the total neoadjuvant therapy for patients with locally advanced rectal cancer: An NCDB analysis. This is ...

Gallbladder cancer (GBC) is a rare form of cancer with no signs or symptoms in the early stages. In the U.S., approximately 2,000 people die annually from this condition, with only 20% diagnosed at an ...

Jami Greer was waiting for her 12-year-old daughter to come out of surgery when she received a confusing text: “The robot has docked.” Mia Greer, a patient at UF Health, had already received ...

The da Vinci robotic surgical system, developed by Intuitive Surgical, is the most widely used robot-assisted surgical platform worldwide. This enables surgeons to perform minimally invasive ...

When someone is told they need surgery, one of the first questions that often comes to mind is How painful will it be, and how long will it take to recover? Modern medicine has advanced so much that ...

Robotic-assisted surgery for colorectal cancer (CRC) demonstrated positive outcomes, with minimal blood loss and low conversion rates in 355 cases. The Senhance Robotic System was used in sigmoid ...

Sharp HealthCare is among 11 medical providers worldwide to gain early access to the next generation of robot-assisted surgery. While this accomplishment may seem like a one-off upgrade, it actually ...

And, before that, Krieger's Smart Tissue Autonomous Robot, STAR, performed the first autonomous robot surgery on a live animal – a laparoscopic surgery on a pig – in 2022. But it was much more heavily ...