{"id":58374,"date":"2012-04-11T14:25:48","date_gmt":"2012-04-11T18:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=58374"},"modified":"2012-04-13T09:24:52","modified_gmt":"2012-04-13T13:24:52","slug":"more-patients-choosing-robotic-assisted-surgery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2012\/04\/more-patients-choosing-robotic-assisted-surgery\/","title":{"rendered":"More Patients Choosing Robotic-Assisted Surgery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-bottom: 18px\">[yframe url=&#8217;http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=PyPp3aWzPiQ&#8217;]<\/div>\n<p>Barbara Ricalzone wasn\u2019t experiencing any symptoms or problems when she was diagnosed with endometrial cancer last year. But because of her family history, her cancer diagnosis wasn\u2019t exactly a surprise.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy mother had 12 brothers and sisters and probably eight of them died from different forms of cancer,\u201d says Ricalzone.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why Ricalzone has always been vigilant about her health. She\u2019s been coming to the UConn Health Center for years, never missing her annual check-ups. When she received her cancer diagnosis, she was also proactive about researching various treatment options and knew she wanted her cancer removed via robotic-assisted surgery.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI asked Dr. Kueck if she was familiar with the da Vinci surgery and she said yes, so I was thrilled because that meant a faster recovery,\u201d explains Ricalzone.<\/p>\n<p>Gynecologic oncologist <a href=\"http:\/\/cancer.uchc.edu\/physicians\/bios\/kueck.html\">Angela Kueck<\/a> with the <a href=\"http:\/\/cancer.uchc.edu\/\">Neag Comprehensive Cancer Center<\/a> says<strong>,<\/strong> \u201cBarbara specifically came here because we had the robotic surgery. She was looking for that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Robotic-assisted surgery is becoming the standard surgical treatment option for patients suffering from a variety of conditions and diseases, including certain types of cancer. Patients spend fewer days in the hospital, less time recovering, and, in most cases, are left with just a few small scars.<\/p>\n<p>Ricalzone says she experienced very little pain and was able to go home the day after the surgery.\u00a0 Less than two weeks later she was back to her normal activities.<\/p>\n<p>Kueck says since Ricalzone\u2019s cancer was caught in its early stages, her prognosis is very good.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c<\/strong>I\u2019m just thankful for the treatment that I received. It was excellent,\u201d adds Ricalzone.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><em>Follow\u00a0the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uchc.edu\">UConn Health Center<\/a> on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/uconnhealthcenter\">Facebook<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/uconnhealth\">Twitter<\/a> and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/uconnhealth\">YouTube<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barbara Ricalzone knew she wanted her cancer removed via robotic-assisted surgery because of the faster recovery time.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":58385,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[179,1,70],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[45],"class_list":["post-58374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uconn-health","category-uncategorized","category-video"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-19 06:27:04","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58374","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58374"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58374\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58417,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58374\/revisions\/58417"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/58385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58374"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=58374"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=58374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}