Hong Kong’s Chinese University successfully completes clinical trials of ‘single-port’ robotic arm for surgery – and patients find system a cut above as well

By the time she was 76, Cheng Choi-yuk had had enough of hospital visits. She was diagnosed with nasopharyngeal cancer in 2005. Then she suffered a stroke. In July 2017, a malignant tumour was found under her tongue as a result of the radiotherapy treatment for her previous cancer. Once more Cheng was forced to go under the knife. “I thought to myself at the time: I was nearly 80, had undergone so many surgeries already, and suffered from cancer and a stroke. I was really on the fence on...