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Da Vinci surgery is available right here in Dayton. Surgeons at Kettering Medical Center (KMC) are performing procedures that not so long ago would have been impossible.

Currently, KMC provides a number of robotic surgery techniques, including:

Prostatectomy

No one is going to tell you that beating prostate cancer is easy. Traditional open urologic surgery - in which large incisions are made to access the pelvic organs - has been the standard approach when surgery is warranted. Yet common drawbacks of this procedure include significant post-surgical pain, a lengthy recovery and an unpredictable, potentially long-term impact on continence and sexual function.

But today, da Vinci^® Prostatectomy offers many patients effective cancer control, faster return of continence and sexual function, less pain, shorter hospital stay and quicker recovery than traditional open surgery. And by using the da Vinci Surgical System, your surgeon can operate with better vision and more precision, through just a few tiny incisions. It's no wonder that da Vinci Surgery is the #1 treatment choice for prostate cancer *

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Hysterectomies and Myomectomies

Traditional open gynecologic surgery, using a large incision for access to the uterus and surrounding anatomy, has for many years been the standard approach to many gynecologic procedures. Yet with open surgery can come significant pain, trauma, a long recovery process and threat to surrounding organs and nerves.

Today, your doctor can treat a range of gynecologic conditions - from chronic pelvic pain to abnormal bleeding - minimally invasively with da Vinci^® Hysterectomy. This procedure requires only a few small incisions, so you can get back to life faster - without the usual recovery following major surgery.

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* #1 treatment choice claim based on 2007 U.S. data on file