Early adoption of robotic surgery leads to organ preservation for kidney cancer patients
New York NY (SPX) Dec 12, 2014 - Patients with operable kidney cancers were more likely to have a partial nephrectomy - the recommended treatment for localized tumors - when treated in hospitals that were early adopters of robotic surgery, according to a new study. Researchers from NYU Langone Medical Center and elsewhere, publishing online in the journal Medical Care, report that by 2008, hospitals that had adopted rob ... more

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