Robotic assisted kidney cancer surgery proves to be beneficial to patients

Sunday, April 26, 2009 - 10:21 in Health & Medicine

Fox Chase Cancer Centre researchers find that outcomes of robotic assisted kidney cancer surgery, when performed by experienced surgeons at high volume centres, prove more beneficial to patients when compared to open surgery. The study, authored by Fox Chase robotic surgeon Rosalia Viterbo, MD, was presented today at the American Urological Association's Annual Meeting,...

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