The revolutionary TaTME technique reduces intervention time by up to 50%.
- The Spanish medical team of Dr. Antonio de Lacy, inventor of the TaTME technique for rectal cancer, has operated on more cases than all the surgeons in this area in the United States.
- The difficulty of the technique means that it can only be performed in certain centers.
Barcelona, December 04, 2017.- The Spanish medical team led by Dr. Antonio de Lacy, developer of the revolutionary TaTME technique that removes rectal cancer in a minimally invasive way, has already reached 400 successful operations, managing to turn this methodology into an international benchmark. The team has performed more operations through this system than all the surgeons in this specialty in the USA. TibHealth.com, the leading digital company in the identification of top doctors and medical centers, with the excellent surgeon, who once again this year confirms himself as one of the best doctors in the world, explains the keys to the success of this revolutionary technology and all the advantages for the patient.
Less invasive, less postoperative and bagless TaTME is a practice that makes it possible to remove rectal cancer in an oncologically safer way, improving the patient’s long-term survival probability. Likewise, being minimally invasive, it helps to reduce the surgical trauma of the patient, reducing wound complications (infection, dehiscence, etc.) and the length of hospitalization, with the consequent early return to normal life and improvement of the esthetics of the surgical scar. Another of the main advantages for the patient is that in most cases he/she does not need to carry the stool bag and in the event that it is necessary, in more than 99% of the situations it is reversible in a period of between 3 and 6 months.
“This technique is applied in a hybrid way, combining laparoscopic resection through the abdomen with transanal resection, increasing precision in the surgical process, facilitating vision and tactile sensation during the operation, reducing the average operating time by 50%,” says Dr. Antonio de Lacy. “Every day we work on research and improvements in the development of this technique, in order to alleviate rectal cancer which, together with lung and breast cancer, is one of the most deadly cancers in the world”.
Dr. Antonio de Lacy has managed to turn his technique into a world reference, although the number of centers where it can be practiced is still limited, since the operating rooms must be equipped with the necessary technology and the medical team must be adequately trained, with surgeons specialized in rectal cancer and a multidisciplinary team of radiologists, oncologists, gastroenterologists and pathologists. “Our efforts are aimed at improving the technique and making it applicable for the treatment of other diseases. We are also working every day to indoctrinate professionals to know and master this technique in any part of the world, so that we can improve the chances of curing rectal cancer,” says Lacy.