Treating Prostate Cancer with daVinci Robot System A new procedure for prostate surgery uses the da Vinci robot system, which combines some techniques of open surgery and robotic surgery. Melinda Beck ...

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 ...

More hospitals are turning to robots for some procedures like heart valve replacements and prostate surgery. It is happening at WakeMed in Raleigh. The robot's name is DaVinci, but skilled human ...

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 ...