From The Daily Mail:
Ten thousand British kidney cancer patients a year are to have their tumours removed by a robot, after health chiefs agreed that the procedure reduced the ‘almost unbearable pain’ suffered by many patients during recovery. The £2 million, multi-armed Da Vinci machine, until now licensed only for prostate surgery, is one of nine recommended procedures to have demonstrated the greatest clinical benefit and the lowest cost. The decision is a turnaround for NHS England, which planned to decommission the robotic procedure as it costs hundreds of pounds more than conventional surgery because it uses disposable instruments.
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