Uttarakhand: In A First, AIIMS Rishikesh Successfully Conducts Robot-Assisted Surgery On Prostate Cancer Patients

In welcome news for patients suffering from prostate cancer, All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) Rishikesh has initiated treatment for the ailment through surgeries relying on robotics technology, reports Dainik Jagran.

Till now, several patients from Uttarakhand and Uttar Pradesh have been successfully operated on using the new process.

AIIMS Director Ravi Kant praised the work being conducted by the physicians of the university’s Urology Department using this new technology.

Associate Professor of the Urology Department Ankur Mittal led the team of doctors which performed the novel surgeries. He stated that the patients who have been treated till now are in a stable condition.

Mittal explained that the malady was the most common kind of cancer to affect men above the age of 65, striking at the prostate gland which is barely the size of a walnut. He added that although the tumour is difficult to detect in the initial stages of the disease, some of its symptoms include the patients needing to urinate very frequently, and experiencing acute pain while doing so.

He also rued that general public is not well informed about the disease, often leading them to be unaware of the symptoms. Mittal stated that the usual means of treating prostate cancer are prostatectomy surgery, radiotherapy and hormonal therapy.