Robot Assisted Surgery has been successfully used to treat over 45,000 patients within Canada since 2003. Leveraging this technology, surgeons of multiple specialties provide patients with a range of cancer and benign conditions minimally invasive care.
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Aubrie's Story
Aubrie Nelson is an emergency nurse from Victoria. She’s married with two young boys, AJ and Ivan. In the Spring of 2014, Aubrie was diagnosed with a rare type of cancer in her salivary gland that was not responsive to radiation.
Future of Surgical Innovation
The multi specialty team at St Joe’s Hospital in Hamilton describe how minimally invasive robot assisted surgery is benefiting their cancer patients daily.
Funding Atlantic Canada's first surgical robotics program at the QEII
Robot-assisted surgery is a cancer treatment option that’s never been available, here, in Atlantic Canada…until now.
Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Minimally Invasive Treatment
M. Regis Labeaume, the Mayor of Quebec City, discusses his prostate cancer diagnosis and his positive experience with minimally invasive robot assisted surgery (French)
Robot Assisted Surgery Program dedicated to Womens Health
Dr. Helen Steed describes the impact the team a Lois Hole Hospital in Edmonton has had on womens lives in provided minimally invasive robot assissted surgery for cancer.
Advantages of Robot Assisted Surgery
In a Health Podcast Dr. Shannon Salvador talks about robot assisted assisted surgery and its impact on patients, surgeon training and the future of surgery.
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"L'intervention s'est très bien passée. Je suis très content. J'ai pu sortir de l'hôpital 24 heures après la chirurgie. Je n'avais aucune douleur" #robotchirurgical @CIUSSSE_CHUS https://bit.ly/3rAYTJw
“I was very anxious to get the surgery done and was worried my weight would be a complicating factor,” recalls Judy. “But Dr. LaRoche and all the staff made me feel so welcome and my weight was not an issue at all.”
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In collaboration with the National Kidney Foundation, we've helped create an educational video series about kidney cancer to inform on treatment options that may help enable better kidney function in the future. Explore the full video series: https://go.intuitive.com/3hTeOj2
@shellbusey had a routine check-up which revealed he had #prostatecancer. @VanProstateCtr's Dr. Larry Goldenberg guided Shell through his diagnosis and treatment options, and now 10+ years later, he is still cancer-free! #MensHealthMonth @VanProstateCtr
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Over 8.5 million operations have been performed using surgical robots from @intuitivesurg. Here's how surgeons train to use them. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z0oJR9S1Ps&utm_source=agorapulse
Probably the most famous robot in medicine to date is the da Vinci surgical system from 2000. Take a look at how #robotics is used healthcare today. https://bit.ly/3h5kUMW
Ontario is launching a new $30M Surgical Innovation Fund to support Ontario hospitals and provide them with the flexibility to perform more surgeries in their communities, reducing wait times and improving access to care for patients across the province.
https://news.ontario.ca/en/release/1000392/ontario-launching-new-30-million-surgical-innovation-fund
"With an intimate understanding of what recovery following a major surgical event meant, Margaret felt relief after learning her procedures would be performed by surgical robotics, in a minimally-invasive way with a much quicker recovery." @QEIIFoundation
https://qe2foundation.ca/our-impact/news/clearer-cancer-picture-minimally-invasive-procedures-reach-all-endometrial-cancer