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|Articles|October 1, 2012

Economic burden of kidney cancer eased by robotics

Adoption of robotic surgery for treatment of kidney cancer has led to a modest increase in the annual volume of partial nephrectomies but a substantial cost savings for care of chronic kidney disease, an economic analysis of a 6-year period suggests.

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