“Today we are fortunate to be able to offer our patients innovative therapies, therapies that from a surgical point of view always go in the direction of minimal invasiveness”. This means being able to “solve even important pathologies, preserving the organs and offering less invasiveness. The time of open surgery with cuts has probably, I won’t say disappeared, but greatly decreased. Today most of our treatments are done with the laparoscopy, with robotic surgery”. This was said by Vincenzo Ficarra, head of the scientific office of the Italian Society of Urology (SIU), on the occasion of the Siu national congress underway in Bari.
“In urology there is the great chapter of endourology – continues Ficarra – that is, the possibility of treating pathologies of the urinary system using natural routes, therefore going back inside the ureters and reaching, for example, these stones which once required treatments invasive. Today we can effectively treat them endoscopically.” However, the congress is also an opportunity for updates on pharmacological therapies. “New treatments, especially in the oncology field – concludes the specialist – extend the lives of patients who do not have the possibility of recovering from their pathologies, but who can be treated with very effective drugs for an increasingly longer time”.
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