An American woman was being routinely examined at a Texas hospital when doctors noticed a lump in her right lung. April Boudreau, 61, has had annual CT scans after surviving cancer three times.
With the picture revealed during the examination, the woman was immediately taken to another hospital in the city where she lives, in the state of Texas. There, more tests were performed that proved the early stages of lung cancer.
Doctors then put her under general anesthesia to perform a biopsy and decided to operate on her at the same time. For the procedure, they used an ultrathin catheter guided by a robot. The instrument allowed surgeons to make small incisions and minimally invasively remove the tumor.
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Three days later, April’s scans showed she was back to normal health. The patient even walked around the house and went about his daily chores quite normally.
“You keep pinching yourself because you can’t believe it’s true. It was very easy, with no radiation or chemotherapy,” the woman said in a statement from Texas Health Fort Worth Hospital, where the surgery took place in January this year.
If April hadn’t had surgery soon, it would have been her fourth battle with cancer. She survived an immune system tumor twice in 1984 and 1985 and breast cancer in 2002.
“The lung tissue containing the cancer was successfully removed without requiring large incisions or trauma to the chest region,” commented Richard Vigness, a surgeon at the hospital.
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