¡¡¡¡Hongkong Chinese University declared on 15th December that it cooperated with Singapore researchers to successfully perform the first two robot auxiliary noninvasive endoscope gastric cancer surgeries. This new technique has broken through the limitation of traditional endoscope and effectively shortened the surgery time.

¡¡¡¡ Hongkong Chinese University, Singapore National University and Singapore Nanyang Technological University cooperated to develop a new robot endoscope platform, which combined the robot’ s arm and common endoscope using high-precision machinery technology to greatly increase the flexibility of endoscope for complicated endoscope surgery.

¡¡¡¡Endoscopic submucous decollement (ESD) conducted on two gastric cancer patients in early stage by researchers of Hongkong Chinese University and Singapore National University using this new technique was the initial in Hongkong. These two operations with total operation time of 66 minutes were both successfully conducted under general anesthesia. The patient had begun to eat one day after operation.
 According to briefing, Hongkong Chinese University took the lead in introducing ESD for the treatment of early gastrointestinal cancer in 2004, which was widely used targeting different parts of entire digestive tract. At present, 276 early gastrointestinal cancer patients have received ESD treatment in the teaching hospital of Hongkong Chinese University, Wales Hospital. The average surgery time was 99.1 minutes and recovery rate was 95%.

¡¡¡¡The researchers said that this new technique would be still in research stage in Hong Kong, which was expected to be widely used in the clinic in 5 years.