2024-04-23 04:06:19
3.8 million people are currently living with cancer in France, and more than 400,000 new cases are diagnosed each year. It is the leading cause of premature mortality. In Marseille, doctors at the Paoli-Calmettes Institute, a reference center for oncology in the Paca region, have been practicing “minimally invasive” interventions to treat small tumors for more than ten years. They are now assisted by a robot, called Epione, which allows them to increase precision and efficiency and ultimately improve the quality of patient care.
Since March, doctors from the interventional radiology unit at the Paoli-Calmettes Institute (IPC, read bonus) no longer works in quite the same way. To treat certain tumors, they are actually supported by Épione, a robotic arm developed by the Montpellier-based company Quantum Surgical. “It is a technological advance that allows us to win in precision and time. The robot makes us better, but only has a supporting role” reassures Doctor Gilles Piana, head of this service.
Epione is designed to plan, target and perform ablation of small tumors © Institut Paoli-Calmettes
An innovation upon an innovation
To fully understand the added value of the robot, we must first detail the technique used at IPC for more than ten years to treat small tumors: percutaneous ablation.
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