Unlike many other cancers, kidney cancer often presents no early warning signs . The disease typically grows silently and is ...

Robot-assisted surgery increases access to partial nephrectomy for appropriate kidney cancer patients.

Robotic and minimally invasive kidney cancer surgery may reduce pain, shorten recovery time and preserve kidney function, according to Dr. Armine Smith.

Stellenbosch University (SU) has announced that South Africa’s first ever robotic surgery for the removal of a donor kidney has been successfully conducted at Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town. The ...

A robot has officially assisted in a dual kidney transplant in Ohio, marking the first surgery of its kind in the United States.

Church was indeed a match and decided to donate his kidney. The surgery, performed at Albany Medical Center, was significant as Church was one of the first to undergo a robotic nephrectomy using ...

Now officially part of the NYU Langone health system, the hospital recently completed its first complex robotic cancer surgeries ...

Surgeons at the University of Illinois have used robotic surgery to remove a kidney and pancreas from a living donor as part of a successful transplantation.

A surgeon at Tygerberg Hospital in Cape Town has performed a first in South Africa. Urologist Dr Danelo du Plessis successfully performed a donor nephrectomy — a surgical procedure to remove a kidney ...

Smaller towns in India are adopting robotic-assisted surgeries once limited to metros. This shift is making advanced ...

Waterloo researchers have developed a minimally invasive treatment to ease kidney stone pain with magnets and robots.

Robotic and minimally invasive surgery for kidney cancer may lead to less blood loss, shorter hospital stays, reduced pain and quicker recovery time, according to Dr. Armine Smith.