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Robotic pancreatic surgery performed at Mayo Clinic for first time | Arizona Horizon

The Mayo Clinic in Arizona performed a Whipple surgery using only robotics for the first time. A Whipple procedure is a common surgery for pancreatic cancer and is performed to treat tumors and other kinds of conditions that affect the pancreas, small intestine, and bile ducts. Due to the pancreas being located right in the middle of the abdomen, surgeons have to move and rearrange other organs around the pancreas. The procedure is extremely invasive, typically has a long recovery time, and often has complications that arise afterward. But all this could be changing with the robotics program at Mayo. Surgical Oncologist Dr. Zhi Fong, who started the robotics program at Mayo Clinic Arizona, joined us to discuss what this could mean for future surgeries at the clinic.