Robotic and laparoscopic surgeries, which are the latest technology of today, are used in the treatment of gynecological diseases in Liv Hospital. The most effective and widespread use of robotic surgery is the area of gynecological oncology. It is successfully implemented in cervical and endometrial cancer surgeries.

Cervical cancer is a preventable disease. For this purpose, HPV vaccination, pap smear screening and the most appropriate treatments are performed with great success in Liv Hospital’s Gynecological Oncology Clinic. Providing the international high standards of the best medical institutions in the world with excellent results in endometrial and ovarian cancers, successful surgeries are performed.

In Liv Hospital, if a patient is diagnosed with cancer the decision for the necessary treatment is made by the “Tumor Council”, which consists of different medical units. Surgical intervention or chemotherapy and radiotherapy is performed to the patient according to the decision arising from this council.

Single Port Robotic Surgery:

Gynecological Surgeries Through Single Hole and Without a Scar Formation

Robotic surgery through single hole or port, provides gynecological surgery to be performed without a scar formation by only using umbilicus. Since abdomen is inserted through umbilicus, port site stays in the abdomen. Therefore, another incision site does not develop on abdominal wall. For this region, a perfect cosmetic result is obtained.
An apparatus called port is placed inside umbilicus in this surgery. This port contains a system which allows a passage of one camera and two separated instruments. Entire handles used are attached to robot and controlled by the surgeon. Procedure is successfully performed.

Single port robotic surgery can be performed by using any segment of abdomen. However, best cosmetic result is obtained when umbilicus is used. Therefore, it can be used in diseases which may require surgical removal of myoma, problems of ovaries and tubes and some early grade gynecological cancers.

In single hole robotic surgery which requires some experience, gynecological surgeries are surgical procedures of future. And they are literally “minimally invasive procedures. Because in operation; instead of three to four holes, single hole is used. With progression of this technique, many surgeries can be performed with this way in near future.

Treated Diseases

Cervical Cancer

It is among the top ten most common cancers in our country, it is thought that 1300 – 1500 new cases are diagnosed every year. However, 60% of cases are diagnosed at an advanced stage without giving response to the treatment. It is thought that the burden of cervical cancer will increase every day with existing socio-cultural changes, and it will create a much bigger threat for our country in the coming years. Cervical cancer of thousands of women is detected in the early stages before the occurrence of cancerous as a result of pap smear screening in cervical cancers, and the lose of the women’s lives due to cancer is prevented.

Ovarian cancer

Ovarian cancers are also among the top ten most common cancers in women. As in all of the world, at least three-quarters of patients are being diagnosed in advanced stages in our country and unfortunately these cancers are coursing deadly in at least 80 percent of in these stages. The “Golden standard” in ovarian cancer patients is not to leave any visible tumor in the first surgery. The rate of performing successful surgery in the way that not leaving any visible tumor in Liv Hospital Gynecologic Oncology Clinic is 93 percent. This rate is 60 percent in some centers in Europe and 11 percent in Canada. Cancer tumor markers are also used widely and unconsciously unfortunately across the country for possible early detection of ovarian cancer. There is no yet known effective method of screening of ovarian cancer.

Endometrium (Intrauterine Membrane) Cancer

Another important cancer among women reproductive tract cancers is endometrium cancer, namely the cancer of the intrauterine membrane. The most common cancer of the female reproductive tract in women in Western countries is endometrial cancers, and it is among the top 10 most common cancers in our country. Usually, accompanying breast, ovarian or colon cancer may occur. Although there is no screening program, most of the cases are diagnosed at an early stage due to the presence of bleeding complaint. Therefore, endometrial cancer should be kept in mind in cases of postmenopausal vaginal bleeding, and it should be examined.

Other Women’s Reproductive System Cancers

Cancers of outer female reproductive system (vulva and vagina) and special female reproductive system cancer types are treated according to international standards in Liv Hospital Gynecologic Oncology Clinic.