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...while some are excited about the long-distance possibilities of remote-control operations, it's the application for on-location surgery that most excites surgeons, and patients like Valentina Tichtchenko. While visiting her daughter recently in San Ramon, the 69-year-old native of St. Petersburg, Russia, began having difficulty swallowing. It worsened to the point where she couldn't eat at all; she was diagnosed with cancer of the esophagus. Traditional surgery involves an incision from the throat down to the belly button. "It's a very violent operation," says cardiothoracic surgeon Murali Dharan, making a digging motion with...
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