New surgical method benefits prostate cancer patients
Queen Mary Hospital has introduced a new technique to minimise wounds caused by surgery on prostate cancer patients. It said the new approach would reduce the surgical trauma and shorten the recovery time for patients who suffered from prostate cancer – the third most common cancer among men in Hong Kong – and needed to have the gland removed. Using the traditional surgical methods, the removal…
Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong has begun using a new surgical method to treat prostate cancer patients, aiming to reduce the trauma of the procedure and speed up recovery times. The innovative approach, which involves a single incision instead of the traditional five to six, was introduced in December and has already been used in ten cases.
Associate consultant Wong Hoi-lung from the hospital's urology division explained that this new technique has shortened hospital stays from four days to just two, allowing patients to be discharged sooner and begin their recovery sooner. Additionally, the surgery time is reduced, which can help decrease patient discomfort and pain, as well as speed up bed turnover in hospitals and alleviate wait times for other surgical procedures.
Wong expressed optimism that this new method could potentially be adopted by other hospitals in Hong Kong to benefit a larger number of patients facing prostate cancer.
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