If you have prostate cancer and your doctor recommends surgery, you may be a candidate for robotic prostatectomy. With this approach, the surgeon removes the prostate without damaging the nerves that control erectile function and without damaging nearby organs.

Partial nephrectomy using robotic surgery may be performed if your doctor recommends kidney surgery for cancer.

Using this surgical technique, surgeons remove only the diseased part of the kidney or the cancerous tumor, sparing as much as possible of the healthy, functioning tissue. An injected dye allows the surgeon to selectively clamp the blood supply to the cancerous part of the kidney and preserve healthy kidney tissue as a means of prevention for future kidney disease.