A team of ENT-HNS doctors recently performed the first transoral robotic surgeries in the Philippines on three patients at St. Luke’s Medical Center-Global City using the third generation da Vinci Si robotic surgical system. Transoral robotic surgery or TORS is indicated for patients who ha...

TAGUIG CITY, Philippines -- St. Luke’s Medical Center in the Philippines is the newest member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network, a network of independent health care providers committed to working together to benefit patients and their families.

A team of robotic thoracic surgeons from St. Luke’s-Global City recently performed the country’s first robotic lung resection on a 61 year-old female patient who was discovered to have a 3.5 centimeter mass in the left upper lobe of her lungs. After doing an extensive work-up includin...