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As an important branch of cancer, kidney cancer has been plaguing many people, and many patients suffer unbearable pain. However, in the United Kingdom, 10,000 kidney cancer patients are eliminated by robots every year, eliminating the pain.
The robots that can benefit patients are the Da Vinci Surgical Robot System, which is priced at 2 million pounds and represents the world's most advanced surgical robots. Many hospitals in the United Kingdom have received government support and applied this expensive robot. This shows a huge transformation of the NHS ("National Health Insurance System in the UK"). Prior to this, the system did not support medical robots because it cost much more than traditional surgical methods. However, after the British Institute of Urology showed government officials the remarkable results of the Da Vinci surgical system, British policy began to support medical robots into the hospital.
So far, Guys and St Thomas NHS gene leader and urologist Ben Challacombe has successfully performed 400 robotic kidney cancer operations and successfully trained 15 doctors in this area. He said:
This is great news for the patient. Traditional kidney cancer surgery usually removes the entire kidney, and robotic surgery only removes the lesion, so it is much better than traditional surgery.
Traditional and robotic surgery require patient anesthesia, but the two methods of surgery are very different. In traditional surgery, the doctor would need to cut a 6-inch incision near the patient's lowest rib, which would make the patient very painful during recovery. The robotic surgery is different. The robot will cut out five 0.5-inch incisions between the patient's navel and back. During the operation, the doctors remotely control the robot and perform the operation for the patient. The surgical recovery process is also relatively short and without pain.
During surgery, the robot removes the lesion; after removal, the robot stops bleeding for the patient. For kidney surgery, time is very important. The entire operation is limited to 30 minutes, because once the kidneys are deprived of oxygen, other lesions will occur. At the same time, robots have better vision than doctors and operate more accurately.
Professor Naeem Soomro from Tyne Hospital has used two robots to perform six operations. He said:
The robotic physician can replace the doctor in many surgical procedures, such as quickly and accurately returning the kidney to place after the tumor has been removed.
Therefore, in the kidney cancer surgery, the arrival of the robot is a gospel. Barry Hartwell from Hertfordshire is one of the beneficiaries. Hartwell, 29, is a cement maker. In April of last year, Robot removed 5 kidney tumors for him.
He is grateful for this:
My grandfather and grandmother died of kidney cancer. My brother also had kidney cancer and had already had one kidney removed. Kidney cancer has become a family disease but I was really desperate two years ago when I learned that my two kidneys were infected with cancer cells. I was only 27 years old. But the Da Vinci surgical system is really my gospel.
In May of last year, four tumors on the right kidney of Hartwell were removed, but during the healing process, he experienced "unbearable" pain:
Speaking, walking, coughing, and even breathing, all my actions make me want to die. Until now, our right kidney is still aching. I spent 7 days in the hospital, spent a few days in the rehabilitation center, and had two months off. At that time, I knew that I still needed to remove the tumor on the left kidney, but when I thought about experiencing another pain, I was very scared.
Later, after being introduced, Barry came to Dr. Challacombe's hospital and was robotically removed from the left kidney. He describes the robotic experience like this:
Compared to the first surgery, this recovery period is really happy. I was discharged after three days of surgery. I didn't need to go to a rehabilitation center. The pain was reduced a lot. After a week, I had no pain. Two weeks later, I returned to work.
In fact, the condition of kidney cancer in Britain is not optimistic. In 2013, there were a total of 11,900 new cases of kidney cancer in the UK, which is 38% higher than a decade ago. Among them, more than half of patients over the age of 70, 4400 patients have died. But the use of surgical robots has made kidney cancer patients see a lot of hope.
At the same time, surgical robots are also used in other cancer surgeries. A total of 60 robots in the UK have now been licensed by the NHS and have been routinely used in prostate surgery, many of which have also been used in lung, bladder, colon, and laryngeal surgery.
More and more doctors are now relying on surgical robots and are also trying to apply them to surgery. Urologists believe that robots can be routinely used in bladder cancer surgery because, like traditional kidney cancer surgery, traditional bladder cancer surgery also removes other organs and the recovery process is slow and painful. In addition, thoracic surgeons from Newcastle are also planning to apply robots to lung cancer surgery.
Via:Daily Mail