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Your Treatment Journey
Your health and happiness are very important throughout the treatment process. With this in mind we have provided some details about Canadian patient support groups that bring patients together enabling them to share their experiences.
The Canadian Cancer Society has many resources for patients and their families. Cancerconnection.ca is an online community for patients to connect with each other and discuss all aspects of their cancer journey. View patients questions, concerns, support and stories on the forums and groups and consider participating in the discussion. Other important services and information the CSS provided include:
Procedure Specific Groups
Additional Education and Support
Precare – a guide to prepare and recover from medical procedures
Provincial Cancer Agencies
Featured Patient Stories
Listen to Canadian patients describe their experiences with robot assisted surgery. More patient stories can be found within the specific procedure pages located here: Robot Assisted Procedures.
Robotic Surgery Lung Removal
Wald describes his experience with lung cancer and his successful treatment with robot assisted surgery.
Aubrie's Story
Aubrie is an emergency nurse from Victoria who was diagnosed with a rare type of cancer in her salivary gland that was not responsive to radiation and ended up being treated with robot assisted surgery.
Returning home after surgery in 23 hours
Jack describes his experience and his short length of stay after a robot assisted prostatectomy.
Bret Hart and his Prostate Cancer Journey
Brett Hart discusses his experience with Prostate Cancer and the care he recieved from the urology team in Calgary
Taking Robotic Surgery to the Next Level
Learn about how surgeons at St. Joe’s Healthcare in provided Linda robot assisted surgery with advanced imaging technology for her lung cancer.
Grateful Transoral robot assisted surgery patient
Jennifer describes her cutting-edge treatment and surgery at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre.
Social Media News Feeds
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