Robot Assisted Surgery has been successfully used to treat over 48,500 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 at Lois Hole Hospital in Edmonton has had on womens lives by providing minimally invasive robot assisted surgery for cancer.
Advantages of Robot Assisted Surgery
Sinai Health is advancing how they deliver health care. Dr. Jonathan Solnik describes how it will enable complex robotics-assisted laparoscopic operations for patients with complicated health conditions.
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Very excited to have a new Robot Assisted Thoracic Surgery Program launched in Quebec! Congratulations to the surgical team at @USherbrooke @CIUSSSE_CHUS and a special thank you to @jeanmarcbaste for his mentorship.
#minimallyinvaisecare #lungcancer #innovation #davincisurgery https://twitter.com/jeanmarcbaste/status/1524432863587975169
A 74-year-old man from Burlington was the first patient in this country to have a fully robotic surgical process to remove cancer from the esophagus. St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton is the first hospital in the country to do it. @manesa_d reports.
https://www.chch.com/first-fully-robotic-esophagectomy-in-canada-performed-at-st-josephs-healthcare-hamilton/
Exciting use of the da Vinci surgical robot system by the thoracic surgery team at @STJOESHAMILTON. Learn more about David's positive experience with robot assisted surgery for the treatment of his esophageal #cancer. #minimallyinvasivecare
Meet our new #SurgicalRobot LEO. Named after Leonardo da Vinci in our Name the Robot contest, he is seen here beside contest winner Joanna Ascenzi. LEO has already assisted in 37 complex laparoscopic operations since arriving at #MountSinaiToronto:
https://www.sinaihealth.ca/news/the-age-of-robotics-how-mount-sinais-robot-will-deliver-life-changing-care/
“Now I can put in a scope that can look up and around that corner, and the robotic arms can operate on the tongue base as if it were right in front of me. This allows me to perform the surgery with improved precision.” Dr. Corsten on using the da Vinci for Trans Oral Surgery