A new procedure for prostate surgery uses the da Vinci robot system, which combines some techniques of open surgery and robotic surgery. Melinda Beck reports.

Prostate cancer will impact one in eight men over the course of their lifetimes. For some of the men affected, the disease will mean surgery. The technology involved in that surgery has evolved over ...

In a ground-breaking development for healthcare in West Africa, The Prostate Clinic (TPC) has successfully performed the first-ever robotic prostate cancer surgery in Nigeria and Sub-Saharan Africa.

When robotic surgery systems first rolled out, devices took up a large footprint in the operating room. Now, the da Vinci SP, or single port unit, consolidates a camera and tools into one arm. It ...

Intuitive Surgical ISRG recently announced the FDA 510(k) clearance of a labeling revision for its da Vinci X and Xi specific to radical prostatectomy. This clearance was granted based on real-world ...

A robotic prostatectomy, also called a robotic-assisted laparoscopic radical prostatectomy, is when doctors use a special machine, or robot, to remove a person’s prostate. This is a type of keyhole ...

Nigeria has made a groundbreaking advancement in cancer care as top urologist and robotic surgeon, Prof Kingsley Ekwueme, successfully performed a robotic prostate cancer surgery in Lagos. Speaking ...