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6 March 2006
Treatments for oral cancers can be very difficult and even disfiguring. But now, local doctors are the first in the world to use robotic surgery for cancerous head and neck tumors. The surgery spares patients the devastating side effects of more traditional surgery. The revolutionary technique was developed in Philadelphia. The surgery robot is changing 57-year-old Philip Preston's life without destroying his appearance.

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17 May 2005
For patients with cancer of the mouth and throat, surgery is a frequent course of treatment, often leading to speech and swallowing dysfunction and external scarring. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania (PENN) School of Medicine's Department of Otorhino-laryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, have completed two studies - the most comprehensive and largest to date - that demonstrate the effective use of the daVinci Surgical Robotic System to perform Trans-Oral Robotic Surgery (TORS) which greatly reduces surgical trauma for patients. Their initial findings were presented at the recent combined Annual Meetings of Otorhino-laryngology (ear, nose and throat) Experts - the Triologic Society in Boca Raton, Florida.