Thursday 23 May 2013

Facing Cancer, With A Robot Surgeon By My Side

Author, Barbara J. King, was recently diagnosed with a rare form of endometrial cancer. Dr. Irvin of Riverside Regional Medical Center in Newport News, Virginia will be performing a radical hysterectomy using the da Vinci robot. 

She gives NPR readers an optimistic look into her life post-diagnosis and her thought processes just before her surgery. 

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