Colon cancer surgery takes about 3 hours but can range from 2 to 8 hours. It depends on how much of the colon your doctor needs to remove and if they perform an open or laparoscopic colectomy.

St. Joseph's Health Hospital has recently introduced the da Vinci Single-Port robot system, which allows for smaller incisions and less pain, and is currently being used for urological surgeries.

“We are able to make much smaller incisions and do everything that we would normally go through a large, you know, 15-inch incision through a small 3/8 of an inch incision and people are getting ...

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CINCINNATI (WKRC) — Doctors at The Christ Hospital are now utilizing robotic surgery for colon cancer resections, a method that has shown to significantly improve healing and recovery times. Dr ...

While effective and safe, it only allowed for a large incision in the body to remove the tumor. As recently as 20 years ago, the main method doctors used to remove colon and rectal tumors was ...

Virtual Incision announces MIRA’s clinical trial results will be presented at the 2023 ASCRS scientific meeting.

The term "laparoscopic" refers to a type of surgery called laparoscopy. Laparoscopy allows the surgeon to perform the procedure through very small, "keyhole" incisions in the abdomen .

D-PLEX100 successfully met the primary efficacy endpoint, with statistically significant results (p<0.005) in 798 patients with large abdominal surgery incisions.The trial successfully met all key ...

Virtual Incision announces MIRA’s clinical trial results will be presented at the 2023 ASCRS scientific meeting. ... chief of the section of colorectal surgery at Main Line Health, ...