Completely remove cancerous tumors with robotic arm

Hanoi: A 71-year-old female patient with stomach cancer underwent robotic surgery, completely removing all cancerous tissue, and was discharged from the hospital two days after surgery.

The patient was from Nam Dinh and had been suffering from epigastric pain for the past two years. Recently, she experienced increased pain, vomiting blood, and passing black stools. The diagnosis was early stage stomach cancer, which could be treated with a robotic arm. The surgery was successful, and the patient was stable and discharged after two days of treatment.

Also discovered a 2cm rectal tumor after a routine health check-up, the 51-year-old man was indicated for radical surgery. Doctors performed robotic surgery to remove the patient's rectum, with no post-operative complications.

These are 2 of 6 gastrointestinal cancer patients who were successfully operated on by doctors at K Hospital and Professor Rasa Zarnegar, Director of the Robotic Surgery Center, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York (USA), using a robotic arm.

"Applying new techniques to cancer treatment, especially in surgical treatment, has brought significant progress to patients in the recovery process, improving their quality of life," said Associate Professor, Dr. Pham Van Binh, Deputy Director of K Hospital.

In particular, robotic surgery for digestive cancer treatment has many advantages over conventional open or endoscopic surgery. That is, clear observation images, highly flexible robotic arms help perform meticulous dissection, and surgeons operate precisely. This method ensures aesthetics, minimal trauma, no bleeding, maximum pain relief, and reduced hospital stay while still ensuring treatment results.

Specialists perform surgery on a cancer patient using a robot on January 5. Photo: Thai Ha

Currently, robotic laparoscopic surgery is applied in some countries such as the US, UK, Korea... Robot da Vinci Xi is the most advanced robot generation today and is the only system in Vietnam used at K Hospital. Digestive cancer surgeries, especially colorectal cancer, using this technology have been performed. In addition, head and neck, gynecological and urological diseases are also applied with the above method.

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