Dr. Jeffrey Cadeddu used the da Vinci single port robotic system and Levita’s MARS platform together for the first time to remove the prostate of a 67-year-old man with Stage 2 prostate cancer at UT Southwestern Medical Center.
The dual method reduces the number of incisions, leading to less pain, fewer complications, faster recovery and fewer scars.
“Technologies that are made by different companies are usually not made to work together … but we can work together, which is what was cool about it,” said Cadeddu, a urologist, professor and member of Levita’s medical advisory board.