‘Can’t be inaccurate’: how 2 tiny robot arms could halve digestive cancer surgery time
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In the final instalment of a four-part Health Matters wellness series on frontier medicine in Hong Kong, Elizabeth Cheung examines a dual-arm surgical robot that could remove gastrointestinal tumours in about half the usual time, and the hurdles between its first human trials and wider patient access. Ho Man-wai underwent a colonoscopy in late August, during which doctors identified three polyps that needed to be removed before they could develop into cancer. Two were removed during the initial...
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‘Can’t be inaccurate’: how 2 tiny robot arms could halve digestive cancer surgery time
In the final instalment of a four-part Health Matters wellness series on frontier medicine in Hong Kong, Elizabeth Cheung examines a dual-arm surgical robot that could remove gastrointestinal tumours in about half the usual time, and the hurdles between its first human trials...
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