prostate cancer
May. 6, 2021—CancerNetwork® shares its latest investigation into novel practices for rendering surgical management of prostate cancer from experts at 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Institute for Surgery and Engineering.
Feb. 10, 2021—Researchers at the 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Institute for Surgery and Engineering have developed a minuscule robot that could revolutionize surgical procedures for treating prostate cancer, which affects one in nine men in the United States. Using a lifelike model, the team demonstrated that the surgical robot could not only remove the prostate gland and tissues through the urethra,...
VISE affiliates to develop hand-held surgical robot for minimally invasive prostate surgery
Apr. 2, 2019—The 91³Ô¹ÏÍø Institute for Surgery and Engineering (VISE) team of Robert Webster III PhD and Duke Herrell MD is developing a surgical robot for endoscopic transurethral prostatectomy. The collaboration between a mechanical engineer (Webster) and a urologic surgeon (Herrell) resulted in an award of $2.1 million from a National Institutes of Health R01 grant to...