Advances in Robotic Surgery

When Susan Cramer’s mother had gynecologic surgery in 1973, she was in the hospital for nine days and spent two months recovering. When Cramer, now 54, had a robotic-assisted radical hysterectomy for ovarian cancer this January, she was out of the hospital the next day and back to her routine as soon as she got home.



“I couldn’t believe the results,” says Cramer, who traveled from West