Doctors remove tumors with use of surgical robot

An Akron hospital is among the first in the country using a high-tech robot to remove cancerous lobes in some patients' lungs without spreading open their chests. Summa Health System recently became one of several hospitals nationwide offering a robotic procedure to remove an entire cancerous lobe of a lung for some patients with early-stage lung cancer.

The less invasive version of the lung surgery allows doctors to operate through small incisions rather than using openings as (Akron Beacon Journal (OH), 975 words.)