Robotic surgery sees cancer patient go home on same day

A prostate cancer patient said he was “delighted” to be back in his own bed the same day as undergoing major robotic surgery.

Eddie Harvey, 67, from Corsham, Wiltshire, was discharged from Bath’s Royal United Hospital (RUH) after undergoing a radical prostatectomy. It was only the second time a patient had been able to have this type of surgery and return home on the same day.

The procedure was carried out by a team using the RUH’s Da Vinci surgical robot.

“I arrived at hospital at 07:00 on the morning of the operation and was back home later that night,” said Mr Harvey. “I was a bit surprised, but delighted.”

A radical prostatectomy is a surgical procedure that removes…