A new lung cancer detection technology was debuted Thursday at UPMC Altoona.
Called monarch platform, the robotic endoscopic technology is designed to have a greater reach, vision, and control during a bronchoscopy procedure.
It has a game-like controller interface that physicians use to navigate the flexible robotic endoscope in the lung.
"It helps us to go there further and further to get more accurate sample and better diagnosis and better treatment for the patient, and again as you said this is probably the beginning of really more advanced technology that have come in the future but we're glad we have this technology here," said UPMC Chief of Pulmonary Services Mehrdad Ghaffari.
The device increases the patient’s chances of survival without unnecessary invasive diagnostic procedures.
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