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Lancashire surgeons celebrate 1,000th robotic prostate surgery

Michal Smolski, his consultant urologist, said he was pleased to say “it all went as planned”

(Yes you can get this procedure simply by going to the UK. Trust me it’s cheaper than the USA)


A team of surgeons at a hospital trust are celebrating performing their 1,000th prostatectomy using robotic surgeries.

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have been using the Da Vinci Xi robotic system for complete or partial prostate removals since 2017.

Surgeons at Chorley and South Ribble Hospital conducted the milestone surgery on patient James Goggin.

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