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Robotic Surgery the New Way Out for Bladder Cancer Patients
Describing their work in the British Journal of Urology-International, lead researcher Dr. Douglas Scherr has revealed in the study that the robotic approach provides similar benefits to prostate resection, including dramatically faster recoveries with equal, or better, surgical precision.
The researchers say that, specifically, robotic cystectomy patients have an average hospital stay of five days, compared with eight days for the standard open bladder surgery.
They have revealed that the procedure makes use of Intuitive Surgical's da Vinci Surgical System.
During the surgery, the surgeon makes five to six small incisions in the abdomen, through which surgical instruments and a tiny stereoscopic camera are inserted.
Once the bladder is removed, the surgeon creates a new channel for urine to pass from the body.
"While we are only beginning to collect long-term empirical data for the bladder, there are early indications that the surgery is at least as good as open surgery at removing cancer. Our research found that patients treated with robotic surgery had just as good a cancer outcome as those individuals treated at the same center with traditional open surgery," says Dr. Scherr, who has performed more than 100 of the procedures -- believed to be among the highest volume anywhere.
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