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Dec 2022
Surgical robot removes throat tumour for the first time
For the first time in the UK, a robot has been used by a surgical team to remove a cancerous tumour from a patient’s throat. Surgeons at Gloucestershire Royal Hospital, Steve Hornby and Simon Higgs, employed the Versius robot to remove a tumour from the patient’s oesophagus. Previously, operating on the oesophagus would…