Given the structures that the City of Health has, it could be a regional “hub” for the training of doctors who specialize in robotic surgeries.

For Armando Melani, an oncological colorectal surgeon in Brazil, this hospital area has a simulation center and advanced technology, where robotic surgeries are performed in the areas of urology, gynecology and general surgery. Panama is one of the few countries in the region with this modality, which opens the possibility of being a training camp for specialists in this area.

Given this, Melani highlighted, it is important to develop the educational part to transmit knowledge, and the City of Health meets those requirements to be a training center in Latin America.

During his presentation at the III Congress of Medicine in the City of Health “Genetics, Cancer and Something Else”, Melani regretted that the robotic area is not implemented with resident doctors in Latin America, something that is done in the United States and Europe.

With the theme “Minimally invasive colorectal surgery: innovative technology for safe cancer surgery”, the specialist clarified that in this process, robot surgery is very good and in the case of Panama, there are qualified professionals in this area of medicine, which allows through this technique, reduce the risks to the patient and perform complex procedures.

Advances in immunotherapy in multiple myeloma
Meanwhile, Carlos Fernández de Larrea, hematologist at the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona, who sarted about “Therapeutic innovations in multiple myeloma,” explained that there are advances in immunotherapy treatments for patients who have this disease.

For example, Fernández de Larrea indicated, those with reflex relapses, in which treatment with “CAR-T” cells or specific antibodies, have changed the evolution of this disease.

These treatments have shown positive results in a high majority of cases, said the Spanish hematologist.

Both doctors presented their topics on the second day of the III Congress of Medicine, which takes place in Panama City.