"'Da Vinci Robot' Provides Safer, Less Painful Breast Reconstruction For Cancer Survivors" - Dr. Max Gomez

Breast reconstruction after a mastectomy is an option that many choose following But complications from radiation and cancer surgery can make that reconstruction difficult. Radiation treatments harden the skin and scar tissue and other reconstruction techniques can leave even bigger scars. That's where robots can help. That's where the Da Vinci Robot came to the rescue. The $2-million machine that Alice Yao, MD, assistant professor, medicine at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, operates remotely from an anteroom next to the operating room lets her go in through small incisions in patient Maria Davila's armpit, separate the lateral muscle from the back and move it to the chest.

- Alice S. Yao, MD, Assistant Professor, Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

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