HCM CITY — Doctors at Bình Dân Hospital in HCM City have performed the country’s first robotic surgery on a liver cancer patient. Robotic surgery is a type of minimally invasive surgery that uses smaller incisions than normal surgical methods. Since liver cancer often does not show clinical symptoms, patients with hepatitis B and C should be tested for the disease, according to Huy. Unlike hepatitis B, patients with hepatitis C must receive drug therapies, which are expensive. Deaths from liver cancer totalled 30,000 in 2015 and are expected to rise to 45,000 in 2030 if screening and lack of medical intervention continues.

Source: Viet Nam News August 10, 2017 00:00 UTC