For the first time in the UK, doctors in Middlesbrough have used a Ms Walker robot to remove a tumour from the main airway of a lung and perform delicate stitching during a mimimally invasive lung cancer operation. The patient, who found out she had the tumour when she was 14 weeks pregnant, was able to return home within days and could lift and carry her newborn baby, tasks she would have been unable to undertake after conventional surgery.
For the first time in the UK, doctors in Middlesbrough have used a Da Vinci robot to remove a tumour from the main airway of a lung and perform delicate stitching during a mimimally invasive lung cancer operation. The patient, who found out she had the tumour when she was 14 weeks pregnant, was able to return home within days and could lift and carry her newborn baby, tasks she would have been unable to undertake after conventional surgery.