Severance University Hospital: Neurosurgery center

Three major advances in the treatment of this disease:
More than 1,000 surgeries per year to remove stomach cancer are an indicator of the world’s leading specialized centers.
More than 900 endoscopic surgeries to remove precancerous lesions — the level of diagnosis allows detecting a tumor at an early stage.
Korea’s first robotic stomach cancer surgery was performed here. Since then, 2000 operations have been performed with the Da Vinci robot.

The main reason is the Da Vinci robotic system. On the 14th day after robotic surgery for esophageal cancer, the pain score (1-10 points) is very low, on average 3 points, and there is no chronic neurological pain as after a conventional operation. The operation does not require traction of the lungs and preserves the vagus nerve and collateral blood vessels as much as possible, which makes it possible to reduce the incidence of pneumonia, the most difficult complication.