Da Vinci’s innovative application is published for the first time in the world in a famous medical journal on oral cancer

The incidence rate of oral cancer in Taiwan is the highest in the world, and the incidence rate among men is much higher than that among women. Cai Qingshao, deputy director of Children’s General Hospital, specializes in the surgical treatment and research of head and neck cancer. He also published the world’s first paper on the application of Da Vinci in oral cancer in the famous SCI medical journal Cancers, comparing traditional surgery with Da Vinci. The publication of the research results on the prognosis of survival rate of Western surgery has not only made Taiwan’s medical achievements once again leap to the international level, but also prompted more medical-related personnel to have more references for clinical application.

The Da Vinci robotic arm of Children’s General Hospital has performed more than 600 head and neck surgeries, and the technique is very proficient. Vice President Cai Qingshao started performing Da Vinci surgeries in 2013, and has performed more than 400 surgeries in the past 10 years. Arm surgery techniques are more specialized. This medical research paper uses oral cancer patients in the past five years from 2017/1 to 2021/10 as a numerical value to compare the effectiveness of traditional surgery and Da Vinci surgery, and the number of cases of both surgeries is 72. In order to seek To be more precise, Vice President Cai Qingshao also used the same gender, the same age and the same cancer stage to compare, which greatly improved the fairness of the mutual comparison.

Cai Qingshao, deputy director of Children’s General Hospital, said that the incidence and mortality of oral cancer in Taiwan have increased every year in the past 30 years.

However, there have been no major changes in the treatment methods in the past. Traditional surgery can only cut the cheek bones to remove oral lesions. The postoperative recovery is slow and affects the bite and appearance. Children’s Hospital has been performing Da Vinci robotic arm transoral surgery since 2013. Because it has a clearer surgical field of view and more flexible use of instruments, all tumor cells can be removed more accurately, reducing the risk of death by two-thirds compared with traditional surgery.

The world’s first study on the application of da Vinci in oral cancer published in the SCI medical journal Cancers not only received international recognition for its innovative application, but also confirmed that the 3-year survival rate of da Vinci oral cancer surgery is significantly higher than that of traditional surgery, and Cancer cells are removed better than traditional surgery, which greatly reduces surgical risks and improves prognosis.

Vice President Cai Qingshao emphasized that in order to provide high-quality medical services to the public, Children’s General Hospital has been committed to medical research and the cultivation of medical talents. It also hopes to publish clinical experience to encourage more medical practitioners to obtain information and help Improve the quality of clinical care and decision-making in the future.