Unlike many other cancers, kidney cancer often presents no early warning signs . The disease typically grows silently and is frequently discovered incidentally during routine imaging for unrelated ...

Surgeons at Tygerberg Hospital achieved a South African first by performing a robotic donor nephrectomy, safely removing a ...

Now officially part of the NYU Langone health system, the hospital recently completed its first complex robotic cancer surgeries ...

Robotic-assisted partial nephrectomy (RAPN) led to a lower rate of complications compared with open partial nephrectomy (OPN) in patients with intermediate- or high-complexity kidney tumors, the ...

Partial nephrectomy, also known as nephron-sparing surgery, has become an undeniable standard for the management of small renal tumors. 10-year survival data showing equivalent oncologic efficacy ...

In a meta-analysis twice as large as any other, robotic partial nephrectomy had a superior morbidity profile compared with laparoscopic partial nephrectomy.

Robotic partial nephrectomy (RPN) results in most superior outcomes than either open (OPN) or laparoscopic partial nephrectomy (LPN), according to a new systematic review and meta-analysis.

A surgeon at Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town has performed a first in South Africa. Urologist Dr Danelo du Plessis successfully performed a donor nephrectomy — a surgical procedure to remove a kidney ...

Recent research has focused on comparing the outcomes of single-port robotic surgeries with their multi-port counterparts, particularly in procedures like partial nephrectomy and radical ...

Stellenbosch University (SU) has announced that South Africa’s first ever robotic surgery for the removal of a donor kidney has been successfully conducted at Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town. The ...

Discover how Tygerberg Hospital has achieved a groundbreaking milestone in South Africa by successfully performing a robotic ...

Pediatric robotic surgery is still in its infancy compared to adult robotic surgery and is difficult because children have small abdomens compared to adults.