Trans Oral Robotic Surgery Offers Revolutionary Treatment for Throat Cancer Patient | UCLA Health
When 55-year-old David Alpern was diagnosed with throat cancer, he sought various opinions about his treatment options, but was disheartened about his choices. In fact, some of the proposed treatments seemed worse to him than the diagnosis itself.
For instance, one procedure David described as, "Your face is split in half and they go in and it's basically a reconstructive surgery."
At that point, David came to UCLA and head and neck surgeon Abie Mendelsohn, MD, hoping for a treatment plan that made sense to him. Dr. Mendelsohn offered him a new treatment -- a minimally invasive robotic surgery that Dr. Mendelsohn describes as almost like a dental procedure.
"What used to be a very gruesome, very debilitating surgery can now be done by only taking out what we absolutely have to," Dr. Mendelsohn says of this new procedure.
Learn more about UCLA Department of Head and Neck Surgery at http://headandnecksurgery.ucla.edu
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